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.
PAT SUMMITTWhen 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,’
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
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Combine practice with belief.
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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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Class is more important than a game.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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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In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
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