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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

Pat Summitt

If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Care Oneself Reputation Tough
I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Better Evaluation Myself Try
To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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Cost Family Head Myself Obligation Reward
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
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
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Achievement Support Surender Team Trust Work Yourself
You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
PAT SUMMITT

Quit Success 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
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
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Lose Perspective Reveal Strength Weakness Yourself
I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Myself Personal Record Sound Thinking Time
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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Equality Oragnization Powerful Responsibility Team Weapon
I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Hate Myself Sound Way
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
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
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
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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People Result Team Work
Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
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Defeat Hard Work Work Yourself
I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
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Career Goodbye Help Play Success Woman Young Yourself
I don’t give out compliments easily.
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Compliment Easy Myself
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
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Execution Win
If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
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Acceptance Responsibility Sit Yourself
Make Winning an Attitude.
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Attitude One Liner Win
Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Listening Participation
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
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
I think I can help others just by my example.
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Example Help Thinking

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