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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

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
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Patricia Susan Summitt
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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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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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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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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You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.
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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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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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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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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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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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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'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take 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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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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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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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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