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12 quotes by Pat Summitt

Patricia Sue "Pat" Summitt (born June 14, 1952) is a former women's college basketball head coach. She now serves as the head coach emeritus of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team. She holds the record for the most all-time wins for a coach in NCAA basketball history of either a men's or women's team in any division. She coached from 1974 to 2012, always with the Lady Vols, winning eight NCAA championships, surpassed only by...
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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... →

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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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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'

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Class is more important than a game.

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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

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I lost my confidence.

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I think I can help others just by my example.

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I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

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I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

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I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

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Sometimes I draw blanks.

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