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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

Winners are not born, they are self-made.
PAT SUMMITT

Born Build Inspirational Win
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
I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
PAT SUMMITT

Belief Combination Faith Interest Myself Success
I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
PAT SUMMITT

Hate Myself Sound Way
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

Academics Basket Ball Greatness Sports Yourself
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
PAT SUMMITT

Achievement Competition Feeling Goal Myself Need
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
Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
PAT SUMMITT

Class Excitement Games Myself People Practice
I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
PAT SUMMITT

Myself Style Thinking
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
PAT SUMMITT

Achievement Support Surender Team Trust Work Yourself
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
PAT SUMMITT

Challenge Truth Value Yourself
My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
PAT SUMMITT

Chance Greatness Life Parents Stand Time Win Yourself
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.
PAT SUMMITT

Feeling Hate Love Myself Relationship
You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
PAT SUMMITT

Quit Success Yourself
There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
PAT SUMMITT

Competition Feeling Survive Wrong
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
PAT SUMMITT

Execution Win

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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