Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
PAT SUMMITTThe ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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Make Winning an Attitude.
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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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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’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
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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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Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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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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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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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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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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