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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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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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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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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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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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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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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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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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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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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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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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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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