I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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I’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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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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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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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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Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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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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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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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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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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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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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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God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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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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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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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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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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See yourself as self employed.
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