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Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.

Pat Summitt

In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
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Absence Care Negative People Yourself
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
I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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Myself Recruit Thinking
There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Competition Feeling Survive Wrong
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Care Oneself Reputation Tough
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
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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Greatness Human Recognition Strength Weakness Work Yourself
If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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Example Leadership Myself Right
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
Class is more important than a game.
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Class Game Important
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
The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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Discipline Goal Teaching
I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.
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Better Improvement Ourselves Team Thinking
Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Common Discipline Effort Goal Group
You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Quit Success Yourself
Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Dedication Team Yourself

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