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

Pat Summitt

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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Chance Greatness Life Parents Stand Time Win Yourself
Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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Accountability Admit Improvement Mistake Wrong Yourself
Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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Need Strength Weakness
I don’t give out compliments easily.
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Compliment Easy Myself
It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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Change Inspirational
The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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Discipline Goal Teaching
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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Career Goodbye Help Play Success Woman Young Yourself
You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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Appearance Choice Day Tired Yourself
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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People Result Team Work
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Lose Perspective Reveal Strength Weakness Yourself
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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Attitude Creation Practice Way Win Yourself
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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Attitude Believe Choice Positive Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
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

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

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