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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

Pat Summitt

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Pat Summitt
Age: 64 †
Born: 1952
Born: June 14
Died: 2016
Died: June 28
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Clarksville
Tennessee
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I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
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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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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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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 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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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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Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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