321 Quotes by Pat Summitt

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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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    As a great long-range shooter, she has drawn the best defender, usually the most athletic, sometimes players with a lot of size. In essence, with her ability to shoot the ball the way she can, she has become a target for every team we play.

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    Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

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    A typical, I think, Georgia-Tennessee match-up is on the way because they like coming down and we like to push tempo as well. So it's going to be a big test for us. We've had some down-to-the-wire games; this could be the same.

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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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    Yours truly, right here, drove the van. If we took two vans, one was the luggage, the other was the players. Typically, they didn't like to ride with me. I usually drove the luggage, especially if we got beat.

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    You're going to have a huge audience in Thompson-Boling (Arena), plus national television coverage. It's a big game, and yet a lot of people say, 'Is the rivalry still what it used to be?' I don't think it's going to be any different. Both teams are going to be excited to play.

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    I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

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