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

Pat Summitt

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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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Rebounding
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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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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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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 want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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I was a little concerned about it when State Farm approached me because, you know, I've never done a commercial by any means, but I tried to look at it as something that would be good for our game. We've never had a women's basketball coach represented in that fashion and I love State Farm for the fact they really support the women's game.
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I really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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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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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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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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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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