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Put the Team Before Yourself.

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
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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 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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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.
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Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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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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It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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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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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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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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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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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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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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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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