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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.

Pat Summitt

I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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Enjoyment Myself Process Team Thinking
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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Attitude Believe Choice Positive Thinking 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 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
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
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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Born Character Face Natural Share Team Work
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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Greatness Myself Neck Support
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
To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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Cost Family Head Myself Obligation Reward
Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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Need Strength Weakness
Combine practice with belief.
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Belief Combination Practice
You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Quit Success Yourself
Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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Goal Penalty System Target Yourself
It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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Goal Hard Stay Struggle
Class is more important than a game.
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Class Game Important
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

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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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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