Put the Team Before Yourself.
PAT SUMMITTThe best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
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The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
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Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
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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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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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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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Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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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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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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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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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