If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
PAT SUMMITTSometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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See yourself as self employed.
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I don’t give out compliments easily.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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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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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.
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Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Combine practice with belief.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
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