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 SUMMITTHard work breeds self-respect.
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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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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I don’t give out compliments easily.
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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’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
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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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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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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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