I’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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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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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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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’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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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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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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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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