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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
Patricia Sue Pat Summitt
Patricia Susan Summitt
Learned
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Basketball

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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 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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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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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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