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Pat Summitt

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.
PAT SUMMITT

Goal Penalty System Target Yourself
I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
PAT SUMMITT

Myself Style Thinking
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Champion Game Offense Ticket Win
Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
PAT SUMMITT

Accountability Admit Improvement Mistake Wrong Yourself
With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
PAT SUMMITT

Attitude Determination Performance Yourself
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.
PAT SUMMITT

Greatness Myself Neck Support
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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Care Player Teaching Yourself
Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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Class Excitement Games Myself People Practice
I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
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Academics Basket Ball Greatness Sports Yourself
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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Ambitious Kind Prosperity Success Way Yourself
I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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Hard Time Hustle Myself Practice Struggle
I don’t give out compliments easily.
PAT SUMMITT

Compliment Easy Myself
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.
PAT SUMMITT

Career Goodbye Help Play Success Woman Young Yourself
Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
PAT SUMMITT

End Perspective Start Success Yourself
Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Communication Silence Voice
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.
PAT SUMMITT

Chance Greatness Life Parents Stand Time Win Yourself

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