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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.

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
Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
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Patricia Susan Summitt
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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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 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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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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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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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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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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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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