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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
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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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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I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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I don't give out compliments easily.
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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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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you,'
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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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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
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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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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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If I aint happy, nobody's happy.
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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
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To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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