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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 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.
PAT SUMMITT

Athlete Love Myself Teaching Work
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
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
PAT SUMMITT

Change Equality Improvement Place 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.
PAT SUMMITT

Example Leadership Myself Right
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
I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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Adversity Fight Myself Player Thinking
Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Project Success
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
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
There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Competition Feeling Survive Wrong
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.
PAT SUMMITT

Goal Penalty System Target Yourself
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
PAT SUMMITT

Change Essential Experiment Success Willing
Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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Need Strength Weakness
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
Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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Believe Discipline Myself People
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.

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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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