If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
PAT SUMMITTDiscipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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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Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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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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It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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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 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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Combine practice with belief.
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There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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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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Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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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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