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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.

Pat Summitt

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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Commitment Person Quit Strong Time Tough
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Karma Loyalty Side Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
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
Combine practice with belief.
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Belief Combination Practice
Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Project Success
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
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
Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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Believe Discipline Myself People
Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Listening Participation
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
See yourself as self employed.
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Employment See Yourself

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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