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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
Pat Summitt
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Pat Summitt
Age: 64 †
Born: 1952
Born: June 14
Died: 2016
Died: June 28
Basketball Coach
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Clarksville
Tennessee
Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
Patricia Sue Pat Summitt
Patricia Susan Summitt
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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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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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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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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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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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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 haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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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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You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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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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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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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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