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.
PAT SUMMITTIt’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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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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You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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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’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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