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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 was a little concerned about it when State Farm approached me because, you know, I've never done a commercial by any means, but I tried to look at it as something that would be good for our game. We've never had a women's basketball coach represented in that fashion and I love State Farm for the fact they really support the women's game.
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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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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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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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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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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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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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.
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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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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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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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When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.
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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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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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