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.
PAT SUMMITTWhen 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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Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
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I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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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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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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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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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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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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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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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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You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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