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 SUMMITTClass is more important than a game.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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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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The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
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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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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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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’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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