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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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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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I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. .. You don't just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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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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There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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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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Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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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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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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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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It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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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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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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When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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