You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
PAT SUMMITTThe willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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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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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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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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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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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
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