More from Pat Summitt
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 SummittPat Summitt You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
Pat SummittPat Summitt Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
Pat SummittPat Summitt See yourself as self employed.
Pat SummittPat Summitt If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
Pat SummittPat Summitt Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
Pat SummittPat Summitt Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
Pat SummittPat Summitt There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
Pat SummittPat Summitt I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
Pat SummittPat Summitt I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
Pat SummittPat Summitt 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 SummittPat Summitt 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.
Pat SummittPat Summitt When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’
Pat SummittPat Summitt Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
Pat SummittPat Summitt 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.
Pat SummittPat Summitt Put the Team Before Yourself.
Pat SummittPat Summitt
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Life is a journey through the sea between the Islands of birth and success.
AurthurAurthur There are times when god speaks. You might not hear the words, but you’ll see. You’ll see.
Sonya TeclaiSonya Teclai For in the wild I feel the safest where the thorns of the invisible hand can not prick me.
Raha ArazRaha Araz I tried to write you something uplifting but I could only see grey.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados I want to spend the rest of my coffee’s with you.
Jessica PickardJessica Pickard Never again will I give, give myself to those who refuse to see my fire.
TMCTMC You attract the energy you give out to the world.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson We are built on a foundation of facades.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch
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More on example
Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.
Bernice KingBernice King People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
Coretta Scott KingCoretta Scott King People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.
Christian BaleChristian Bale That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
William McKinleyWilliam McKinley You have to be strong for people when you don’t wanna be strong. You have to be clean-showered, clean, clean-cut for people. You have to set an example.
Ski Mask the Slump GodSki Mask the Slump God He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity about his captaincy.
Rahul DravidRahul Dravid It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.
Judah SmithJudah Smith Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce
