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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

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
Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
Patricia Sue Pat Summitt
Patricia Susan Summitt
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There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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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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Actually, when I saw it in USA Today, I just, Candace Parker was, we were warming up in practice and she was underneath the basket shooting and I just said, 'Hey Candace! I enjoyed what I read in the paper today about your decision [to stay].' She just started laughing and I did too. So I haven't discussed it with her.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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I really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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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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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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My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
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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 I aint happy, nobody's happy.
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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 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 think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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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You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you,'
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