Pat Summitt Quotes - Page 2

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.

She taught me that it's ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

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

Class is more important than a game.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

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