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 SUMMITTIn order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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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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The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
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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.
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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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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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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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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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If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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