Football Quotes by Pat Summitt

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

— Pat Summitt

Put the Team Before Yourself.

— Pat Summitt

Make Winning an Attitude.

— Pat Summitt

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

— Pat Summitt

I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

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

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

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being…

— Pat Summitt

When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious…

— Pat Summitt

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I used to call players in and sit them down privately and say, “This is the deal.” I find myself doing it…

— Pat Summitt

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole…

— Pat Summitt

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

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

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt