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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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I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.
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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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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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There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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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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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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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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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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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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Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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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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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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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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Success is a project that's always under construction.
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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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If I aint happy, nobody's happy.
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