Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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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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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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Make Winning an Attitude.
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It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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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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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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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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Combine practice with belief.
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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.
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Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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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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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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