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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.
Pat Summitt
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Pat Summitt
Age: 64 †
Born: 1952
Born: June 14
Died: 2016
Died: June 28
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Clarksville
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Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
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Patricia Susan Summitt
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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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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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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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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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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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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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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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 spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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I don't give out compliments easily.
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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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