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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
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Clarksville
Tennessee
Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
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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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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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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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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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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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The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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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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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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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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