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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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Patricia Susan Summitt
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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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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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 really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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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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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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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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I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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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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She taught me that it's ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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If I aint happy, nobody's happy.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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I was a little concerned about it when State Farm approached me because, you know, I've never done a commercial by any means, but I tried to look at it as something that would be good for our game. We've never had a women's basketball coach represented in that fashion and I love State Farm for the fact they really support the women's game.
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