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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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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 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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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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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By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.
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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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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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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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Success is a project that's always under construction.
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You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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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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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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