Tag: Success Magazine

Winning Every Day

Written on January 1, 2009.

Pat Summitt’s Strategy Centers on Goal-Setting Eight times Pat Summitt’s University of Tennessee women’s basketball team has ended the season by lifting high the national championship trophy. Not once was that her team’s goal. Before each of the 34 seasons that Summitt has been a head coach of some of the most accomplished teams of all time, she and her captains have committed a set of goals to writing.

NFL’s Warrick Dunn Is Giving Homes For The Holidays

Written on November 5, 2008.

Warrick Dunn’s tribute to his mom makes the American Dream a reality for needy families. Thanksgiving night, 2007. In a nationally televised game, Warrick Dunn, the diminutive running back then playing for the Atlanta Falcons, took a quick handoff early in the second quarter and plunged his 5-foot-9-inch, 180-pound frame into a mass of 300-pound linemen. On the other end of the run, he found history.

Focusing On Improvement When You’ve Reached the Pinnacle

Written on November 1, 2008.

How Roy Williams Motivates His Team Roy Williams knows about expectations. The veteran coach of the University of North Carolina’s vaunted basketball program has, in years past, fielded teams of which little was expected. And he has come to play with teams when anything less than a championship would seem, at least in the public eye, a failure. Williams doesn’t hesitate in saying which he prefers: “Give me great players...