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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.

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
Tennessee
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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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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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
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I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.
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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 really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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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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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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If I aint happy, nobody's happy.
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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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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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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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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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Success is a project that's always under construction.
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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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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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