I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
PAT SUMMITTSuccess is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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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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You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’
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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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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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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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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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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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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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I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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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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Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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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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Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
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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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