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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
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Patricia Susan Summitt
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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If I aint happy, nobody's happy.
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I don't give out compliments easily.
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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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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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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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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 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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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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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I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. .. You don't just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
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Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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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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When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.
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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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