Pat Summitt Quotes

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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

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The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.

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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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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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You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

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There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.

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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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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.

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No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

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When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.

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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.

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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

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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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It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.

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You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it.... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.

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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.

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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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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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