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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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Patricia Sue Summitt
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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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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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Success is a project that's always under construction.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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 have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
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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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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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You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
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No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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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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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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