I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
PAT SUMMITTI 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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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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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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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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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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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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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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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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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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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’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
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