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Class is more important than a game.
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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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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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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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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I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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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 can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive
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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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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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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'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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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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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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you,'
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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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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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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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Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
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