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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Pat Summitt

I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Hate Myself Sound Way
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
Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Dedication Team Yourself
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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People Result Team Work
Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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End Perspective Start Success 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
I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
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Feeling Hate Love Myself Relationship
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
Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Hard Work Respect
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
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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Myself Style Thinking
I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Better Evaluation Myself Try
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Karma Loyalty Side 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
There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Competition Feeling Survive Wrong
Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Project Success
Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Common Discipline Effort Goal Group
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
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Execution Win
Class is more important than a game.
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Class Game Important
I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Myself Personal Record Sound Thinking Time
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
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Lose Perspective Reveal Strength Weakness 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
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
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Champion Competition Discrimination
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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Champion Children Need Win

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

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