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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
Patricia Sue Pat Summitt
Patricia Susan Summitt
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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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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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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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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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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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I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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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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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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. .. You don't just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
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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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By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.
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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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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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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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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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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