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You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

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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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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Class is more important than a game.
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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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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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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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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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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Success is a project that's always under construction.
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There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.
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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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