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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.

Pat Summitt

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
Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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End Perspective Start Success Yourself
If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
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Acceptance Responsibility Sit Yourself
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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Attitude Creation Practice Way Win 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
Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Communication Silence Voice
Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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Accountability Admit Improvement Mistake Wrong 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
Class is more important than a game.
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Class Game Important
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
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Examination Force Learning Lose Time Win Yourself
I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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Adversity Fight Myself Player Thinking
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
With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Attitude Determination Performance 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
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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Born Character Face Natural Share Team Work

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