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Hard work breeds self-respect.

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
Breeds
Perseverance
Respect
Self
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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 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.
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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
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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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I really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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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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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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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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I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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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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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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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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Actually, when I saw it in USA Today, I just, Candace Parker was, we were warming up in practice and she was underneath the basket shooting and I just said, 'Hey Candace! I enjoyed what I read in the paper today about your decision [to stay].' She just started laughing and I did too. So I haven't discussed it with her.
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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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