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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

Class is more important than a game.
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Class Game Important
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
The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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Discipline Goal Teaching
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Champion Competition Discrimination
With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Attitude Determination Performance Yourself
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 just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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Enjoyment Myself Process Team Thinking
Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Alone Fantasy Herself Success
Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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Need Strength Weakness
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
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Champion Game Offense Ticket Win
Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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Commitment Person Quit Strong Time Tough
Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Common Discipline Effort Goal Group
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
You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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Appearance Choice Day Tired Yourself
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
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Lose Perspective Reveal Strength Weakness 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
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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People Result Team Work
I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Better Evaluation Myself Try
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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Expectation Experience People Rise Seek
Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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Natural Teaching Team Work
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Fans Listening Start Wind
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
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
If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Vibe
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

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