Pat Summitt Quotes

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

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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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Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

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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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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

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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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By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.

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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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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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We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

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Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

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