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Basketball Coach

Pat Summitt, born on June 14, 1952, was a renowned basketball coach in the United States. She served as the head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols women's basketball team, leading the team to win 11 national championships, making her one of the most successful women's basketball coaches in NCAA history. Summitt's influence in the basketball world was profound, and her coaching style and leadership were highly praised.

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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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Book:Reach for the Summit

Source: Reach for the Summit

“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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“You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.”

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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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“A lot of kids just want to go play basketball, but they don't know to play and they don't have the skills to play. I think just the skill development right off and then play all you can, but don't sacrifice your skill development by just playing and not working on the specifics of the game.”

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“Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.”

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Book:Reach for the Summit

Source: Reach for the Summit

“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.”

Source: Reach for the Summit

“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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Book:Reach for the Summit

Source: Reach for the Summit

“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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Book:Reach for the Summit

Source: Reach for the Summit

“If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.”

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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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“I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.”

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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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“Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.”

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Book:Reach for the Summit

Source: Reach for the Summit

About the Author

Born: June 14, 1952
Died: June 28, 2016
Known for: Basketball Coach
Quotes: 120

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Reach for the SummitRelated source material

Raise the RoofRelated source material

Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You DoRelated source material

Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in PerspectiveRelated source material

Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in PerspectiveRelated source material

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