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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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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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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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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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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 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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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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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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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 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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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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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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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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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Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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If I aint happy, nobody's happy.
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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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