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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.

Pat Summitt

It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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Expectation Experience People Rise Seek
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
Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Listening Participation
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Challenge Truth Value Yourself
See yourself as self employed.
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Employment See Yourself
You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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Competition Person Talent Yourself
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Karma Loyalty Side Yourself
I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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Enjoyment Myself Process Team Thinking
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 think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
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Better Break Challenge People Thinking Yourself
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
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Fans Listening Start Wind
Combine practice with belief.
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Belief Combination Practice
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
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
It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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Change Inspirational

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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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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