If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
PAT SUMMITTIf I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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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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I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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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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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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