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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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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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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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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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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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Success is a project that's always under construction.
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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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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I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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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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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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I really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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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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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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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
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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 haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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