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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.

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.
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Athlete Love Myself Teaching Work
See yourself as self employed.
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Employment See Yourself
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
I think I can help others just by my example.
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Example Help Thinking
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Champion Competition Discrimination
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
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Champion Game Offense Ticket Win
With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Attitude Determination Performance 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
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
Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Hard Work Respect
I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Better Evaluation Myself Try
Class is more important than a game.
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Class Game Important
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Care Oneself Reputation Tough
To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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Cost Family Head Myself Obligation Reward
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

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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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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