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,’
PAT SUMMITTTo 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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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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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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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 always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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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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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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