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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
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Clarksville
Tennessee
Patricia Sue Summitt
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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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Class is more important than a game.
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You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
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No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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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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Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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.
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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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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.
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You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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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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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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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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