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.
PAT SUMMITTAnyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Combine practice with belief.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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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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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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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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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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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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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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