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.
PAT SUMMITTThe 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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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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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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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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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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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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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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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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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
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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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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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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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