I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
PAT SUMMITTI 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Combine practice with belief.
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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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Make Winning an Attitude.
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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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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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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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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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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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I 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.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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I don’t give out compliments easily.
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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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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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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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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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