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Pat Summitt Quotes about Sports

All Pat Summitt Quotes Attitude Basketball Belief Coaching Discipline Hate Perseverance Responsibility Sports quotes Team Teamwork Weakness Winning
Success is a project that's always under construction.

Success is a project that's always under construction.

Pat Summitt
Sports, Construction, Projects
Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.176, Crown Business

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

Pat Summitt
Sports, Essentials, May
Pat Head Summitt (1998). “Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do”, Broadway

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

Pat Summitt
Sports, Perspective, Want
Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.187, Crown Business

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

Pat Summitt
Sports, Practice, Games

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

Pat Summitt
Sports, Self, Winner
Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.13, Crown Business

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 Summitt
Sports, Hate, Sick
Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.179, Crown Business

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.

Pat Summitt
Sports, Team, Goal
Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.154, Crown Business

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

Pat Summitt
Sports, Motivational Sports, Discipline
Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.78, Crown Business

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.

Pat Summitt
Sports, Ambitious, Way
Pat Head Summitt (1998). “Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do”, Broadway

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

Pat Summitt
Sports, Responsibility, Care
Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.35, Crown Business

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

Pat Summitt
Leadership, Sports, Athlete

I think basketball has changed tremendously and for the better. I think that obviously the game is better. I think the skill of the players are better, the strength, the overall athleticism, the teamwork involved. I think coaching is better. We have more exposure for our game than ever. You know, our sport has grown significantly in really the last five years. It's pretty amazing.

Pat Summitt
Basketball, Sports, Teamwork
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