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 SUMMITTI hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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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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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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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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If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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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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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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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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