Pat Summitt Quotes

Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.

Put the Team Before Yourself.

I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

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.

You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors

I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. .. You don't just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.

Make Winning an Attitude.

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

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

If I aint happy, nobody's happy.

Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

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

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

I didn't say a lot. I didn't throw anything. That's not my style. I did think about it though.

If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.

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.

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

See yourself as self employed.

I don't give out compliments easily.

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

Combine practice with belief.

Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you're OK but you could be better.

I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

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

I think I can help others just by my example.

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.

I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.

There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.

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

I mean, we're always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.

I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.

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

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

I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.

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

Someday, I suppose I’ll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I’ll probably be rocking fast, because I don’t know what I’ll do without a job.

We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.