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Pat Summitt

You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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Competition Person Talent Yourself
Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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Average Discipline Help Job Separate Work Yourself
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
Class is more important than a game.
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Class Game Important
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
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
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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Champion Children Need Win
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Care Oneself Reputation Tough
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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Childhood Farm Grow Hard Work Yourself
Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Discipline Oneself
Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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Class Excitement Games Myself People Practice
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
You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Quit Success Yourself
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Lose Perspective Reveal Strength Weakness Yourself
I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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Athlete Love Myself Teaching Work
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
Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Dedication Team Yourself
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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Patience Right Wait
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
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Karma Loyalty Side Yourself
Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Common Discipline Effort Goal Group
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
Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
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Defeat Hard Work Work Yourself
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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Change Equality Improvement Place 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
Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Communication Silence Voice
I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Better Evaluation Myself Try

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