Top 98 Pat Summitt Quotes
#1. We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors
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#2. Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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#3. I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.
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#4. You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive
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#5. Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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#6. Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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#7. Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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#8. Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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#9. The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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#10. Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.
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#14. Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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#15. Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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#16. I think I can help others just by my example.
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#17. Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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#21. 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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#22. Someday, I suppose I'll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I'll probably be rocking fast, because I don't know what I'll do without a job.
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#23. Success is a project that's always under construction.
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#24. Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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#25. 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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#26. Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. - December 13, 2011, Piscataway, New Jersey, on the road with the Lady Vols, seven months after diagnosis
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#30. 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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#31. If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
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#32. It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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#34. 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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#35. Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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#36. I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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#37. Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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#39. If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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#40. Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
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#41. We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language
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#42. 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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#43. Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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#44. The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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#46. It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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#48. Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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#49. I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
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#50. 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.
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#52. Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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#53. If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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#54. There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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#55. Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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#56. Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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#57. I didn't leave her there for long. When a player makes a mistake, you always want to put them back in quickly - you don't just berate them and sit them down with no chance for redemption.
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#58. Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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#59. The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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#60. I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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#61. When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.
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#62. Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
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#63. 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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#64. 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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#66. God doesn't take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
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#67. You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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#68. You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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#69. 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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#70. Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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#71. 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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#73. With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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#74. A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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#75. 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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#76. Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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#77. I didn't say a lot. I didn't throw anything. That's not my style. I did think about it though.
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#79. The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.
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#80. Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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#84. Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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#85. Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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#86. Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.
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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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#90. 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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#91. You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
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#92. 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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#93. Life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
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#94. What Michelle didn't yet know was that there is a vast difference between playing and leading. The point guard position in basketball is one of the great tutorials on leadership, and it ought to be taught in classrooms. Anyone can perfect a dribble with muscle memory;
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#95. By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.
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#96. Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.
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#97. I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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