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.
PAT SUMMITTPut the Team Before Yourself.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
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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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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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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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She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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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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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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Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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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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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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