Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
PAT SUMMITTI’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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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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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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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See yourself as self employed.
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We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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