The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
PAT SUMMITTI 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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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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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’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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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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Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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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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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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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 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 don’t give out compliments easily.
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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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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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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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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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