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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
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If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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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'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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I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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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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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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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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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 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 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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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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 really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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