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Winners are not born, they are self-made.

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
Winners
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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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If I aint happy, nobody's happy.
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My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.
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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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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.
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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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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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You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive
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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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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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