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If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

Pat Summitt

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 all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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End Perspective Start Success Yourself
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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Champion Children Need Win
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Care Oneself Reputation Tough
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Execution Win
Class is more important than a game.
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Class Game Important
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
Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Discipline Oneself
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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Attitude Believe Choice Positive Thinking Yourself
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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Patience Right Wait
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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Academics Basket Ball Greatness Sports Yourself
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Challenge Truth Value Yourself
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
Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Listening Participation
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
I think I can help others just by my example.
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Example Help Thinking
Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Project Success
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
Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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Accountability Admit Improvement Mistake Wrong 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.
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Achievement Competition Feeling Goal Myself Need
Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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Belief Success Yourself
The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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Best Responsibility Small Time Way
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
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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Game Player Reach Time
The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
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Greatness Human Recognition Strength Weakness Work Yourself
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
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Champion Competition Discrimination

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