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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

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 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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Success is a project that's always under construction.
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Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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