Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.

We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

I didn't say a lot. I didn't throw anything. That's not my style. I did think about it though.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.

Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.

If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.

I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.

I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

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.

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.

The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.

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.'

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,'

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.

Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.

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.

I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.

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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