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 have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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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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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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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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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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Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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See yourself as self employed.
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Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Make Winning an Attitude.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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