It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
PAT SUMMITTWhen you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’
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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.
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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
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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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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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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 just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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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 I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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I’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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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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I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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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.
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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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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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We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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