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.
PAT SUMMITTWinners are not born, they are self-made.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
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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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My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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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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Class is more important than a game.
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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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Combine practice with belief.
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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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