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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
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If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
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I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach more than basketball. You teach life skills. The teaching part of it is something that I am passionate about. I look forward to every practice. A lot of people say well, I enjoy coaching, but I see myself as more as a teacher.
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Class is more important than a game.
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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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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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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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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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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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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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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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I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
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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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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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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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