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.
PAT SUMMITTI think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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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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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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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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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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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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