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I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

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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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Actually, when I saw it in USA Today, I just, Candace Parker was, we were warming up in practice and she was underneath the basket shooting and I just said, 'Hey Candace! I enjoyed what I read in the paper today about your decision [to stay].' She just started laughing and I did too. So I haven't discussed it with her.
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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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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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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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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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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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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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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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No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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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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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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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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