To 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.
PAT SUMMITTIf you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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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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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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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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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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