I don’t give out compliments easily.
PAT SUMMITTOffense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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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 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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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Combine practice with belief.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
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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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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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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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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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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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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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