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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

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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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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I really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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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 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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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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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 think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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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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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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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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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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