You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
PAT SUMMITTLosing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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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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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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I don’t give out compliments easily.
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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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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 think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.
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Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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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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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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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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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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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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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
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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 haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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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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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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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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