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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
Basketball Coach
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Clarksville
Tennessee
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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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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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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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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If I aint happy, nobody's happy.
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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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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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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 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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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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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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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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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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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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