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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.

Pat Summitt

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Pat Summitt
Age: 64 †
Born: 1952
Born: June 14
Died: 2016
Died: June 28
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Clarksville
Tennessee
Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
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Patricia Susan Summitt
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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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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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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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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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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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I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.
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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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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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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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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
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Class is more important than a game.
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It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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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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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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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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You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.
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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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