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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
Patricia Sue Summitt
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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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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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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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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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I really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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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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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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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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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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