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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

Pat Summitt

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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Cost Family Head Myself Obligation Reward
I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Hate Myself Sound Way
Class is more important than a game.
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Class Game Important
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Challenge Truth Value Yourself
If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Vibe
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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Change Essential Experiment Success Willing
You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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Competition Person Talent Yourself
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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Champion Different Face Myself National Sports Time Win
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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Feeling Hate Love Myself Relationship
There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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Game Player Reach Time
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
Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Project Success
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Karma Loyalty Side Yourself
I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Better Evaluation Myself Try
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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Champion Children Need Win
You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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Motivational Shot
In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
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Absence Care Negative People Yourself
It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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Goal Hard Stay Struggle
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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Change Equality Improvement Place Yourself
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Care Oneself Reputation Tough
I don’t give out compliments easily.
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Compliment Easy Myself
You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
PAT SUMMITT

Quit Success 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.
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Ambitious Kind Prosperity Success Way Yourself
Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Discipline Oneself
Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Dedication Team Yourself
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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Care Player Teaching Yourself
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

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