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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
Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
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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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There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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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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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 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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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She taught me that it's ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive
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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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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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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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
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