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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.

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
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Patricia Susan Summitt
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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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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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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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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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Actually, when I saw it in USA Today, I just, Candace Parker was, we were warming up in practice and she was underneath the basket shooting and I just said, 'Hey Candace! I enjoyed what I read in the paper today about your decision [to stay].' She just started laughing and I did too. So I haven't discussed it with her.
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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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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 don't give out compliments easily.
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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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You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.
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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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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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You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
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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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I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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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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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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