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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

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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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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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I don't give out compliments easily.
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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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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Success is a project that's always under construction.
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I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach more than basketball. You teach life skills. The teaching part of it is something that I am passionate about. I look forward to every practice. A lot of people say well, I enjoy coaching, but I see myself as more as a teacher.
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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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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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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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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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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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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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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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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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