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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

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
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
Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Common Discipline Effort Goal Group
With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Attitude Determination Performance Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
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Defeat Hard Work Work Yourself
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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Final Game Loser Preparation Win
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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Achievement Competition Feeling Goal Myself Need
Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Communication Silence Voice
I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
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Feeling Hate Love Myself Relationship
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
I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Break Goal Myself Record

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