Hard work breeds self-respect.
PAT SUMMITTAttitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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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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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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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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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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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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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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