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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

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
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Patricia Susan Summitt
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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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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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Class is more important than a game.
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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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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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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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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