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

Pat Summitt

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Pat Summitt
Age: 64 †
Born: 1952
Born: June 14
Died: 2016
Died: June 28
Basketball Coach
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Clarksville
Tennessee
Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
Patricia Sue Pat Summitt
Patricia Susan Summitt
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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I am about helping each and every student athlete that selects to wear the orange, you know, be successful at Tennessee individually and as a team. That type of record is certainly not anything that I have aspirations to reach.
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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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