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 SUMMITTKnow your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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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I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
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I 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.
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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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It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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