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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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You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive
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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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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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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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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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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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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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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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I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. .. You don't just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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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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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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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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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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