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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
Defense
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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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It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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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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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 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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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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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You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive
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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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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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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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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
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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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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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