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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.

Pat Summitt

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.
PAT SUMMITT

Better Improvement Ourselves Team Thinking
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Challenge Truth Value Yourself
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Examination Force Learning Lose Time Win Yourself
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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Born Build Inspirational Win
Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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Natural Teaching Team Work
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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Born Character Face Natural Share Team Work
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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Attitude Choice Negative Positive Thinking Yourself
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Fans Listening Start Wind
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
The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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Discipline Goal Teaching
There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Competition Feeling Survive Wrong
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 you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
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Better Break Challenge People Thinking Yourself
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
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
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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Patience Right Wait

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