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I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.

Pat Summitt

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.
PAT SUMMITT

Care Player Teaching Yourself
Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Dedication Team Yourself
Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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Goal Penalty System Target Yourself
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 think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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Myself Recruit Thinking
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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Better Game Shoot Sports Yourself
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
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
PAT SUMMITT

Champion Children Need Win
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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Born Build Inspirational Win
Combine practice with belief.
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Belief Combination Practice
There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Competition Feeling Survive Wrong
You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
PAT SUMMITT

Appearance Choice Day Tired Yourself
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Lose Perspective Reveal Strength Weakness Yourself
We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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Aware Body Communication Language
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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Attitude Creation Practice Way Win Yourself
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.
PAT SUMMITT

Absence Care Negative People Yourself

I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.

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I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.

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