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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.

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
It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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Change Inspirational
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 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 mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Better Evaluation Myself Try
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
Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Dedication Team Yourself
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
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
The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
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Greatness Human Recognition Strength Weakness Work Yourself
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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Born Build Inspirational 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
Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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Natural Teaching Team Work
I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Hate Myself Sound Way
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Lose Perspective Reveal Strength Weakness Yourself
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Fans Listening Start Wind
Make Winning an Attitude.
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Attitude One Liner Win
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
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Absence Care Negative People Yourself
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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Patience Right Wait
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Examination Force Learning Lose Time Win Yourself

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