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.

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

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

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

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, "or in a correctional institution," as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway.