Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
PAT SUMMITTOffense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Combine practice with belief.
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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
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It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
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