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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
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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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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 want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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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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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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I don't give out compliments easily.
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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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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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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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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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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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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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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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