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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
Patricia Sue Pat Summitt
Patricia Susan Summitt
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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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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
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I really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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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 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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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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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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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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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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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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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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You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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