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.
PAT SUMMITTKnow your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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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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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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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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You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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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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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
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It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
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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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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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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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