I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
PAT SUMMITTThere is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
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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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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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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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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 best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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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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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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