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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

Pat Summitt

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Pat Summitt
Age: 64 †
Born: 1952
Born: June 14
Died: 2016
Died: June 28
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Clarksville
Tennessee
Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
Patricia Sue Pat Summitt
Patricia Susan Summitt
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach more than basketball. You teach life skills. The teaching part of it is something that I am passionate about. I look forward to every practice. A lot of people say well, I enjoy coaching, but I see myself as more as a teacher.
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I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.
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If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
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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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Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Actually, when I saw it in USA Today, I just, Candace Parker was, we were warming up in practice and she was underneath the basket shooting and I just said, 'Hey Candace! I enjoyed what I read in the paper today about your decision [to stay].' She just started laughing and I did too. So I haven't discussed it with her.
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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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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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