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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.

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

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

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

Put the Team Before Yourself.

Pat Summitt
Basketball, Team, Coaching
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 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 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 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 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 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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