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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.

Pat Summitt

Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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Natural Teaching Team Work
You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Quit Success Yourself
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Lose Perspective Reveal Strength Weakness Yourself
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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Attitude Believe Choice Positive Thinking 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
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Examination Force Learning Lose Time Win Yourself
Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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Believe Discipline Myself People
God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
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Belief Cruelty Fly God Inspirational Light Religious Room
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
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
The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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Discipline Goal Teaching
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
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Execution Win
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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People Result Team Work
Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Listening Participation
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

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