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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.

Pat Summitt

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
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
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Achievement Support Surender Team Trust Work Yourself
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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Attitude Choice Negative Positive Thinking Yourself
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Challenge Truth Value Yourself
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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Patience Right Wait
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
Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Alone Fantasy Herself Success
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
Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Communication Silence Voice
Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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Need Strength Weakness
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
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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Equality Oragnization Powerful Responsibility Team Weapon
I think I can help others just by my example.
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Example Help Thinking
I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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Hard Time Hustle Myself Practice Struggle
I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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Myself Recruit Thinking
She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Care Player Teaching 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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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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