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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

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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Examination Feeling Reality Strength Strong Weakness Yourself
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Challenge Truth Value Yourself
Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Communication Silence Voice
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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Best Responsibility Small Time Way
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Champion Competition Discrimination
I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Hate Myself Sound Way
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
There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Advice Champion Comfortable Old Willing
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
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
Combine practice with belief.
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Belief Combination Practice
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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Change Equality Improvement Place Yourself
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.
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Ambitious Kind Prosperity Success Way Yourself
Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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Natural Teaching Team Work
I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Break Goal Myself Record
It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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Change Inspirational
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
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Execution Win
Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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Believe Discipline Myself People
The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Athlete Equality Person Student
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
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Champion Game Offense Ticket Win
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
Make Winning an Attitude.
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Attitude One Liner Win
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 mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Better Evaluation Myself Try
With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Attitude Determination Performance Yourself

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