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.
PAT SUMMITTTeamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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 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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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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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’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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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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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Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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