Pat Summitt Quotes - Page 3

Hard work breeds self-respect.

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

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.

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

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

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

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

Put the Team Before Yourself.

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,'

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.

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.

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

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.

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

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.

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

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

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

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.

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

Make Winning an Attitude.

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.

If I aint happy, nobody's happy.

I was a little concerned about it when State Farm approached me because, you know, I've never done a commercial by any means, but I tried to look at it as something that would be good for our game. We've never had a women's basketball coach represented in that fashion and I love State Farm for the fact they really support the women's game.

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