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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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Pat Summitt
Age: 64 †
Born: 1952
Born: June 14
Died: 2016
Died: June 28
Basketball Coach
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Clarksville
Tennessee
Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
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Patricia Susan Summitt
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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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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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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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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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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 my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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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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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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You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.
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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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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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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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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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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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