She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
PAT SUMMITTSuccess 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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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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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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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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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’
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I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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