Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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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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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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 I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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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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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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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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It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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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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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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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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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
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