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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.

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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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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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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If I aint happy, nobody's happy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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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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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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If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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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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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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