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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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Pat Summitt
Age: 64 †
Born: 1952
Born: June 14
Died: 2016
Died: June 28
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Clarksville
Tennessee
Patricia Sue Summitt
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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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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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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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 hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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