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.
PAT SUMMITTWith attitude, you can determine your own performance.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’
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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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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.
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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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Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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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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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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