The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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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To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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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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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.
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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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I think I can help others just by my example.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Combine practice with belief.
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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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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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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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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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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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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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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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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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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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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 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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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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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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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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