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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

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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
Offense
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Basketball
Rebounding
Winning
Championships
Games
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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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I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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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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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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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 learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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I don't give out compliments easily.
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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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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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I really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Success is a project that's always under construction.
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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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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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