American - Coach | June 14, 1952 -
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
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Class is more important than a game.
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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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Sometimes I draw blanks.
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I lost my confidence.
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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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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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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.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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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.
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