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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

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 what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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People Result Team Work
It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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Expectation Experience People Rise Seek
There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Competition Feeling Survive Wrong
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
Make Winning an Attitude.
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Attitude One Liner Win
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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Better Game Shoot Sports Yourself
See yourself as self employed.
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Employment See Yourself
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
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
I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Better Evaluation Myself Try
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Challenge Truth Value Yourself
If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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Example Leadership Myself Right
I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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Enjoyment Myself Process Team Thinking
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
The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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Best Responsibility Small Time Way
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Champion Competition Discrimination
Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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Need Strength Weakness
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Fans Listening Start Wind
I’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Greatness Myself Neck Support
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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Attitude Believe Choice Positive Thinking Yourself
Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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Believe Discipline Myself People
I think I can help others just by my example.
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Example Help Thinking
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
It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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Change Inspirational
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
Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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Class Excitement Games Myself People Practice

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