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 SUMMITTYou can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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See yourself as self employed.
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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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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
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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.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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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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