Make Winning an Attitude.
PAT SUMMITTThere is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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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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You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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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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In 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.
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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’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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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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It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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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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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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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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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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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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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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Class is more important than a game.
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We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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