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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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It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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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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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
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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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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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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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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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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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Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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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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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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I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
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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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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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