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 SUMMITTThe person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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Make Winning an Attitude.
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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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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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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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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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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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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Class is more important than a game.
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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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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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You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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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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It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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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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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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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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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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