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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
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If I aint happy, nobody's happy.
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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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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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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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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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Success is a project that's always under construction.
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Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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