Pat Summitt Quotes about Basketball

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Put the Team Before Yourself.

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.

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

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.

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.

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