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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’

Pat Summitt

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Communication Silence Voice
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
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
Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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Need Strength Weakness
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Lose Perspective Reveal Strength Weakness Yourself
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
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
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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Belief Cruelty Fly God Inspirational Light Religious Room
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
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
I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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Morning Myself Thinking Wake Up
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Execution Win
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
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
I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Break Goal Myself Record
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
Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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Natural Teaching Team Work
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
I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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Hard Time Hustle Myself Practice Struggle
We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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Aware Body Communication Language
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
The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Athlete Equality Person Student
See yourself as self employed.
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Employment See Yourself
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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Attitude Choice Negative Positive Thinking Yourself
I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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Belief Combination Faith Interest Myself Success
If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
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Acceptance Responsibility Sit Yourself
Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Common Discipline Effort Goal Group

I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’

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