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It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.

Pat Summitt

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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Athlete Love Myself Teaching Work
If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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Example Leadership Myself Right
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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Absence Care Negative People Yourself
There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Advice Champion Comfortable Old Willing
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Challenge Truth Value Yourself
Make Winning an Attitude.
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Attitude One Liner Win
Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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Commitment Person Quit Strong Time Tough
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Champion Game Offense Ticket Win
Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Dedication Team Yourself
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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Academics Basket Ball Greatness Sports Yourself
It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
PAT SUMMITT

Goal Hard Stay Struggle
Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Communication Silence Voice
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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Change Essential Experiment Success Willing
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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Better Game Shoot Sports Yourself
Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Project Success
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

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