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It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Pat Summitt

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
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Examination Force Learning Lose Time Win Yourself
Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Discipline Oneself
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Champion Game Offense Ticket Win
Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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Belief Success Yourself
Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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Class Excitement Games Myself People Practice
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
Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Communication Silence Voice
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
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
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
I think I can help others just by my example.
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Example Help Thinking
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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Attitude Creation Practice Way Win Yourself
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
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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Achievement Competition Feeling Goal Myself Need
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Fans Listening Start Wind

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