Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
PAT SUMMITTYou spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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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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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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God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
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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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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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I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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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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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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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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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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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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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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