I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
PAT SUMMITTIn 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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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 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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Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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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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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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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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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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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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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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