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

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
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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 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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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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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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Class is more important than a game.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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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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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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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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