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.
PAT SUMMITTI’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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I don’t give out compliments easily.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
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We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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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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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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