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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

Pat Summitt

There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Advice Champion Comfortable Old Willing
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Champion Competition Discrimination
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Care Oneself Reputation Tough
She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Care Player Teaching Yourself
The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Athlete Equality Person Student
I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
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Better Break Challenge People Thinking Yourself
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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Change Essential Experiment Success Willing
The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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Discipline Goal Teaching
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
Class is more important than a game.
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Class Game Important
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Execution Win
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
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Karma Loyalty Side 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
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
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Lose Perspective Reveal Strength Weakness Yourself

A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

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