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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

Pat Summitt

There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Competition Feeling Survive Wrong
I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Break Goal Myself Record
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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Care Player Teaching Yourself
Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Hard Work Respect
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
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
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Lose Perspective Reveal Strength Weakness Yourself
I think I can help others just by my example.
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Example Help Thinking
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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Deal Growth Order Preparation Responsibility Yourself
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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People Result Team Work
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
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
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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Born Build Inspirational Win
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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Attitude Believe Choice Positive Thinking 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
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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Appearance Choice Day Tired Yourself
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Challenge Truth Value Yourself
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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Final Game Loser Preparation Win
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
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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Better Game Shoot Sports Yourself
There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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Game Player Reach Time
It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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Change Inspirational
I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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Adversity Fight Myself Player Thinking
I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
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Academics Basket Ball Greatness Sports Yourself
Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Discipline Oneself
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
Combine practice with belief.
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Belief Combination Practice

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