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If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

Pat Summitt

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.
PAT SUMMITT

Defeat Hard Work Work Yourself
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
God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
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Belief Cruelty Fly God Inspirational Light Religious Room
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
Combine practice with belief.
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Belief Combination Practice
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
Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Communication Silence Voice
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
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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Appearance Choice Day Tired Yourself
Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Project Success
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
I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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Adversity Fight Myself Player Thinking
You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
PAT SUMMITT

Competition Person Talent Yourself
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Execution Win
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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Change Equality Improvement Place Yourself
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
PAT SUMMITT

Champion Game Offense Ticket Win

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