Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships. — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them. — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine. — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball. — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it. — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me. — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
She taught me that it's ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don't… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers. — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
“We installed something Dean called “the persistence drill,” which tested their stamina: they had to make consecutive full-court layups for two straight… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
“What Michelle didn’t yet know was that there is a vast difference between playing and leading. The point guard position in basketball… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
“I’d bring our big players out to the perimeter and make them run the play like a guard, so they saw the… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
A lot of kids just want to go play basketball, but they don't know to play and they don't have the skills… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
“I used to call players in and sit them down privately and say, “This is the deal.” I find myself doing it… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
“Have Candace bring the ball up,” she said urgently. It was totally counterintuitive: Candace was our go-to player, on whom we counted… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way. — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
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… — Pat Summitt Copy Share
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything. — Pat Summitt Copy Share
“We installed something Dean called “the persistence drill,” which tested their stamina: they had to make consecutive full-court layups for two straight minutes—and if… — Pat Summitt Copy Share
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… — Pat Summitt Copy Share
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… — Pat Summitt Copy Share
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before. — Pat Summitt Copy Share
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers. — Pat Summitt Copy Share
In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with… — Pat Summitt Copy Share
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it. — Pat Summitt Copy Share
If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility — Pat Summitt Copy Share
