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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

I lost my confidence.

Pat Summitt

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

Pat Summitt

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.'

Pat Summitt

I think I can help others just by my example.

Pat Summitt

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

Pat Summitt

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

Pat Summitt

Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.

Pat Summitt

Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

Pat Summitt

Sometimes I draw blanks.

Pat Summitt

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.

Pat Summitt

Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.

Pat Summitt

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 my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

Pat Summitt

I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'

Pat Summitt

Class is more important than a game.

Pat Summitt

In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.

Pat Summitt

When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

Pat Summitt

I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

Pat Summitt

We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

Pat Summitt

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

Pat Summitt