The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
PAT SUMMITTSuccess 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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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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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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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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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’
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I don’t give out compliments easily.
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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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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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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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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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You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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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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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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Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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