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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.

Pat Summitt

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.
PAT SUMMITT

Ambitious Kind Prosperity Success Way Yourself
The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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Best Responsibility Small Time Way
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Care Oneself Reputation Tough
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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End Perspective Start Success Yourself
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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Greatness Myself Neck Support
The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Athlete Equality Person Student
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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Acceptance Responsibility Sit Yourself
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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Enjoyment Myself Process Team Thinking
I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Break Goal Myself Record
I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
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Myself Style Thinking
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.
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Cost Family Head Myself Obligation Reward
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Champion Game Offense Ticket Win
Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Hard Work Respect
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Karma Loyalty Side Yourself
When 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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Childhood Farm Grow Hard Work Yourself
I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
PAT SUMMITT

Adversity Fight Myself Player Thinking

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