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I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
Pat Summitt
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Pat Summitt
Age: 64 †
Born: 1952
Born: June 14
Died: 2016
Died: June 28
Basketball Coach
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Clarksville
Tennessee
Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
Patricia Sue Pat Summitt
Patricia Susan Summitt
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She taught me that it's ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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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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Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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I really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
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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 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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My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
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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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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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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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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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The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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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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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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