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If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

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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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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The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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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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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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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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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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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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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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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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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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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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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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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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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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