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I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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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You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
Pat Summitt
You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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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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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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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 best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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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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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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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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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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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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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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It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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I am about helping each and every student athlete that selects to wear the orange, you know, be successful at Tennessee individually and as a team. That type of record is certainly not anything that I have aspirations to reach.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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