Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
PAT SUMMITTAdmit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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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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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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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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Combine practice with belief.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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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 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 the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.
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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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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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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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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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