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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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It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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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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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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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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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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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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Class is more important than a game.
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I really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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I am about helping each and every student athlete that selects to wear the orange, you know, be successful at Tennessee individually and as a team. That type of record is certainly not anything that I have aspirations to reach.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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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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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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 think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.
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