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.
PAT SUMMITTSetting 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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I don’t give out compliments easily.
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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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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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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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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Class is more important than a game.
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See yourself as self employed.
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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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Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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