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.
PAT SUMMITTAnyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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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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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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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 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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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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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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