If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
PAT SUMMITTAdmit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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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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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’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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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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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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You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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See yourself as self employed.
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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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