Pat Summitt Quotes

I think I can help others just by my example.

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

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.

You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.

I think basketball has changed tremendously and for the better. I think that obviously the game is better. I think the skill of the players are better, the strength, the overall athleticism, the teamwork involved. I think coaching is better. We have more exposure for our game than ever. You know, our sport has grown significantly in really the last five years. It's pretty amazing.

I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.

Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

See yourself as self employed.

Make Winning an Attitude.

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

Class is more important than a game.

I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.

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.

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

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

Hard work breeds self-respect.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

I really felt like we had to have a go to player.

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

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.

Actually, when I saw it in USA Today, I just, Candace Parker was, we were warming up in practice and she was underneath the basket shooting and I just said, 'Hey Candace! I enjoyed what I read in the paper today about your decision [to stay].' She just started laughing and I did too. So I haven't discussed it with her.

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

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

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

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

A lot of kids just want to go play basketball, but they don't know to play and they don't have the skills to play. I think just the skill development right off and then play all you can, but don't sacrifice your skill development by just playing and not working on the specifics of the game.

Success is a project that's always under construction.

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.

If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

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.

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them - or at least figure out how to work around them.

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.

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.

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

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

I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.

I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach more than basketball. You teach life skills. The teaching part of it is something that I am passionate about. I look forward to every practice. A lot of people say well, I enjoy coaching, but I see myself as more as a teacher.

I think that it was a great feeling and probably a little bit more special because of the length of time that had passed before we won, but I think more importantly, it was just a great feeling because this team had such strong leadership and they had great chemistry.

If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

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