If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
PAT SUMMITTThere is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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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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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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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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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You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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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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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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Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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Make Winning an Attitude.
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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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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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