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 SUMMITTI haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
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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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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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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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You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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See yourself as self employed.
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You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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 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.
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Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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