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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
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Clarksville
Tennessee
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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 always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.
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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 haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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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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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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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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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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Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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I don't give out compliments easily.
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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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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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