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.
PAT SUMMITTI didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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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Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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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 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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