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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

I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Hate Myself Sound Way
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
God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
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Belief Cruelty Fly God Inspirational Light Religious Room
I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Myself Personal Record Sound Thinking Time
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
I don’t give out compliments easily.
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Compliment Easy Myself
See yourself as self employed.
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Employment See 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.
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Chance Greatness Life Parents Stand Time Win Yourself
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
Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Alone Fantasy Herself Success
Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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Class Excitement Games Myself People Practice
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
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
I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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Belief Combination Faith Interest Myself Success
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
I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Better Evaluation Myself Try
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
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
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Champion Competition Discrimination
I’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Greatness Myself Neck Support
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
Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Dedication Team Yourself
You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Quit Success Yourself
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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Champion Children Need Win
There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Advice Champion Comfortable Old Willing
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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Equality Oragnization Powerful Responsibility Team Weapon
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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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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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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