If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
PAT SUMMITTWe communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Class is more important than a game.
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Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
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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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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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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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I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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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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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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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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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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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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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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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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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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