Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
PAT SUMMITTRebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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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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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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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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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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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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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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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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My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
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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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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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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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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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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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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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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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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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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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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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