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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.
Pat Summitt
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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
Patricia Sue Pat Summitt
Patricia Susan Summitt
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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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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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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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 really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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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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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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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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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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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 haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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