Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
PAT SUMMITTLosing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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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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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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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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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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I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
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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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Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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 just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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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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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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