Hard work breeds self-respect.
PAT SUMMITTI 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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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.
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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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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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See yourself as self employed.
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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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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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Make Winning an Attitude.
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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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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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