Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
PAT SUMMITTRebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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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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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 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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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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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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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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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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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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The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
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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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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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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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