If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
PAT SUMMITTIf I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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Combine practice with belief.
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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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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Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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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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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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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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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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