Pat Summitt famous quotes

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

#Sports #May #Ingredients

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

#Attitude #Believe #Thinking

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Beats

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

#Goal #Harder #Climbs

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

#Basketball #Rooms #Persons

Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
-- Pat Summitt

#Teamwork #People #Common

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
-- Pat Summitt

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Attitude #Thinking

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Loyalty #Team #Heart

Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
-- Pat Summitt

#Want #What You Want #Colleagues

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

#Sports #Practice #Games

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

#Perseverance #Winning #Games

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

#Hate #Way #Sound

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Strong #Real #Weakness

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

#Volleyball #Caring #Tough

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Weakness #Figures

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

#Champion #Uncomfortable #Old Saying

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Teamwork #Coaching

Success is a project that's always under construction.
-- Pat Summitt

#Sports #Construction #Projects

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

#Survival #Instinct #Survival Instinct

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Running #Perseverance #Differences

If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
-- Pat Summitt

#Want #Example #Right Thing

When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you,'
-- Pat Summitt

#Dad #Growing Up #Cows

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

#Sports #Motivational Sports #Discipline

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Jobs #Air #Hay

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Sports #Ambitious #Way

I think I can help others just by my example.
-- Pat Summitt

#Helping Others #Thinking #Example

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors
-- Pat Summitt

#Girl #Volleyball #Winning

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

#Volleyball #Weakness #Losing

In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
-- Pat Summitt

#People #Care #Negative

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Support #Sticks #Necks

Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
-- Pat Summitt

#Powerful #Team #Responsibility

My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
-- Pat Summitt

#Winning #Long #People

Class is more important than a game.
-- Pat Summitt

#Class #Games #Important

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

#Morning #Thinking #Wake Up

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

#Practice #Want

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
-- Pat Summitt

#Leadership #Sports #Athlete

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Responsibility #Order

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Goodbye #Successful

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Determination #Attitude

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Running #Perseverance #Tired

Hard work breeds self-respect.
-- Pat Summitt

#Perseverance #Hard Work #Self

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Sports #Hate #Sick

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
-- Pat Summitt

#Sports #Perspective #Want

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Inspirational #Goal #Important

Winners are not born, they are self-made.
-- Pat Summitt

#Sports #Self #Winner

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Sports #Team #Goal

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

#Sports #Responsibility #Care

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.
-- Pat Summitt

#Team #Player #Jigsaw Puzzles

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

#Teamwork #Team Building #Faces

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

#Basketball #Done #Belief

If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Coaching #Bother

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Loyalty #Giving

Put the Team Before Yourself.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Team #Coaching

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

#Basketball #Games #Coaching

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

#Basketball #Games

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Teamwork #Ideas

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

#Basketball #Winning #Coaching

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

#Basketball #Kids #Winning

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Self #Goal

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Attitude #Determine

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

#Basketball #Expectations #People

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Mistake #Team

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

#Basketball #Tired #Disappear

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

#Basketball #Attitude #Winning

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Winning #Games

To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
-- Pat Summitt

#Teamwork #Team Building #Cost

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

#Succeed #Individual #Myth

I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, "or in a correctional institution," as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway.
-- Pat Summitt

#Hate #Pride #Player

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Fighting #Competition

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

#Basketball #Believe #Discipline

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

#Basketball #Body #Language

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
-- Pat Summitt

#Basketball #Mistake

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.
-- Pat Summitt

#Rooms

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
-- Pat Summitt

#Winning #Coaching #Execution

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
-- Pat Summitt

#Discipline