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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

Pat Summitt

She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Care Player Teaching Yourself
You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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Motivational Shot
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
I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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Enjoyment Myself Process Team Thinking
Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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Average Discipline Help Job Separate Work Yourself
You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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Competition Person Talent Yourself
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
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 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 want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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Hard Time Hustle Myself Practice Struggle
We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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Aware Body Communication Language
Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Listening Participation
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
If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Vibe
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
It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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Goal Hard Stay Struggle

If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

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