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I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

Pat Summitt

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Pat Summitt
Age: 64 †
Born: 1952
Born: June 14
Died: 2016
Died: June 28
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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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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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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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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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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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Success is a project that's always under construction.
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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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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
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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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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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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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