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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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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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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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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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If I aint happy, nobody's happy.
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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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It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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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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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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I am about helping each and every student athlete that selects to wear the orange, you know, be successful at Tennessee individually and as a team. That type of record is certainly not anything that I have aspirations to reach.
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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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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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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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You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive
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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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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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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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