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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.

Pat Summitt

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
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
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Fans Listening Start Wind
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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Appearance Choice Day Tired Yourself
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
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
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Champion Competition Discrimination
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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Change Equality Improvement Place Yourself
There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Competition Feeling Survive Wrong
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
I don’t give out compliments easily.
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Compliment Easy Myself
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Execution Win
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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Childhood Farm Grow Hard Work Yourself
Class is more important than a game.
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Class Game Important
Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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Goal Penalty System Target Yourself
Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Dedication Team Yourself

I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.

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