If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
PAT SUMMITTCoaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
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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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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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Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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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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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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See yourself as self employed.
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Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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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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Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
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