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

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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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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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When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.
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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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 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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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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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Class is more important than a game.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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Success is a project that's always under construction.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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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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