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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
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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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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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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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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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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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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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you,'
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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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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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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