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Pat Summitt

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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Deal Growth Order Preparation Responsibility Yourself
You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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Motivational Shot
I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
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Academics Basket Ball Greatness Sports Yourself
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Challenge Truth Value Yourself
Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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End Perspective Start Success Yourself
I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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Adversity Fight Myself Player Thinking
I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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Morning Myself Thinking Wake Up
I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Hate Myself Sound Way
Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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Belief Success Yourself
In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
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Absence Care Negative People Yourself
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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Equality Oragnization Powerful Responsibility Team Weapon
Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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Natural Teaching Team Work
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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Expectation Experience People Rise Seek
The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Athlete Equality Person Student
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Lose Perspective Reveal Strength Weakness Yourself
It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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Change Inspirational
Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
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Ambitious Kind Prosperity Success Way Yourself
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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Final Game Loser Preparation Win
We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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Aware Body Communication Language
The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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Best Responsibility Small Time Way
The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
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Greatness Human Recognition Strength Weakness Work Yourself
I think I can help others just by my example.
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Example Help Thinking
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
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Achievement Support Surender Team Trust Work Yourself
With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Attitude Determination Performance Yourself
I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Myself Personal Record Sound Thinking Time
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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Game Player Reach Time
Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Listening Participation

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