Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
PAT SUMMITTIn the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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See yourself as self employed.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
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