The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
PAT SUMMITTTo 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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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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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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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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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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Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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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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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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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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It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek 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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