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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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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Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
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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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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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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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If I aint happy, nobody's happy.
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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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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
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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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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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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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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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