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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
Basketball Player
Clarksville
Tennessee
Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
Patricia Sue Pat Summitt
Patricia Susan Summitt
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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.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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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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