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 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
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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Final Game Loser Preparation Win
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
The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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Discipline Goal Teaching
If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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Example Leadership Myself Right
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
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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Attitude Believe Choice Positive Thinking 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
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Examination Force Learning Lose Time Win Yourself
If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
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Acceptance Responsibility Sit Yourself
You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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Motivational Shot
With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Attitude Determination Performance Yourself
See yourself as self employed.
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Employment See Yourself
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Execution Win
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Karma Loyalty Side 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
In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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Deal Growth Order Preparation Responsibility 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
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
I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.
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Better Improvement Ourselves Team Thinking
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
No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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Examination Feeling Reality Strength Strong Weakness Yourself
Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Dedication Team Yourself
There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Competition Feeling Survive Wrong
Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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Natural Teaching Team Work
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’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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