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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

You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Quit Success Yourself
Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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Need Strength Weakness
She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Care Player Teaching Yourself
I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Myself Personal Record Sound Thinking Time
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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Ambitious Kind Prosperity Success Way Yourself
We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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Aware Body Communication Language
No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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Examination Feeling Reality Strength Strong Weakness Yourself
If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Vibe
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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Achievement Competition Feeling Goal Myself Need
Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Dedication Team Yourself
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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Change Equality Improvement Place Yourself
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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People Result Team Work
Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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Class Excitement Games Myself People Practice
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 think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
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Better Break Challenge People Thinking Yourself
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Examination Force Learning Lose Time Win Yourself

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