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You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.

Pat Summitt

I think I can help others just by my example.
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Example Help Thinking
The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Athlete Equality Person Student
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Karma Loyalty Side Yourself
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
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
I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Hate Myself Sound Way
See yourself as self employed.
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Employment See Yourself
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Challenge Truth Value Yourself
Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Listening Participation
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
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
Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Common Discipline Effort Goal Group
Make Winning an Attitude.
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Attitude One Liner Win
My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
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Chance Greatness Life Parents Stand Time Win 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
It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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Goal Hard Stay Struggle

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