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

Pat Summitt

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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
My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
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Chance Greatness Life Parents Stand Time Win Yourself
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
You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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Motivational Shot
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 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
I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
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Champion Different Face Myself National Sports Time Win
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
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Challenge Truth Value Yourself
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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Born Character Face Natural Share Team Work
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
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
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Champion Game Offense Ticket Win
Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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Natural Teaching Team Work
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 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
Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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Need Strength Weakness
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Fans Listening Start Wind
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
Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Alone Fantasy Herself Success
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
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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Attitude Believe Choice Positive Thinking Yourself
It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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Change Inspirational
You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Quit Success Yourself
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
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Examination Force Learning Lose Time Win Yourself

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

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