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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
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Games
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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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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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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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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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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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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You have to make shots. That's the bottom 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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By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.
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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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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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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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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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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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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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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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Success is a project that's always under construction.
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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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No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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