Pat Summitt Quotes About Team

Quotes about: Team

• 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.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Mistake, Team

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.39, Crown Business

• 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.

  Pat Summitt

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Truth

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.48, Crown Business

• Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.

  Pat Summitt

  Powerful, Team, Responsibility

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.38, Crown Business

• 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.

  Pat Summitt

  Teamwork, Team Building, Cost

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.131, Crown Business

• Put the Team Before Yourself.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.123, Crown Business

• 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.

  Pat Summitt

  Team, Player, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.112, Crown Business

• Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.

  Pat Summitt

  Teamwork, Team Building, Doe

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.123, Crown Business

• 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.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Team, Goal

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.154, Crown Business

• I think that it was a great feeling and probably a little bit more special because of the length of time that had passed before we won, but I think more importantly, it was just a great feeling because this team had such strong leadership and they had great chemistry.

  Pat Summitt

  Strong, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

• I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.

  Pat Summitt

  Team, Thinking, Coaching

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

• 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.

  Pat Summitt

  Team, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

• 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.

  Pat Summitt

  Team, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

• I am about helping each and every student athlete that selects to wear the orange, you know, be successful at Tennessee individually and as a team. That type of record is certainly not anything that I have aspirations to reach.

  Pat Summitt

  Team, Athlete, Successful

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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