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

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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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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 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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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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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 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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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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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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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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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
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