Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
PAT SUMMITTI 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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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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I don’t give out compliments easily.
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Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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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 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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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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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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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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