If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
PAT SUMMITTI 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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.
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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 hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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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 think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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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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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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