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I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.

Pat Summitt

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Discipline Oneself
The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Athlete Equality Person Student
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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Final Game Loser Preparation Win
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
I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Myself Personal Record Sound Thinking Time
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Execution Win
I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
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Feeling Hate Love Myself Relationship
I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
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Career Goodbye Help Play Success Woman Young Yourself
I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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Myself Recruit Thinking
Class is more important than a game.
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Class Game Important
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
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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Champion Different Face Myself National Sports Time Win
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Champion Competition Discrimination
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.
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Better Improvement Ourselves Team Thinking
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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Equality Oragnization Powerful Responsibility Team Weapon
I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Break Goal Myself Record
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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People Result Team Work
In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
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Absence Care Negative People Yourself
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Lose Perspective Reveal Strength Weakness Yourself
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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Ambitious Kind Prosperity Success Way Yourself
I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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Morning Myself Thinking Wake Up
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
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
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
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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Attitude Creation Practice Way Win Yourself
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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Better Game Shoot Sports Yourself
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

I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.

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