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.
PAT SUMMITTI’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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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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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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Combine practice with belief.
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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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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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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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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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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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Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
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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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