Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
PAT SUMMITTI 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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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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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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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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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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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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It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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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 think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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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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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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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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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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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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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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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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I think I can help others just by my example.
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