I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
PAT SUMMITTCoaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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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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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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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 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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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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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.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on 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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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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If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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