Pat Summitt

Combine practice with belief.

— Pat Summitt

If I aint happy, nobody's happy.

— Pat Summitt

Make Winning an Attitude.

— Pat Summitt

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

— Pat Summitt

I don't give out compliments easily.

— Pat Summitt

See yourself as self employed.

— Pat Summitt

Hard work breeds self-respect.

— Pat Summitt

Sometimes I draw blanks.

— Pat Summitt

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

— Pat Summitt

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

— Pat Summitt

“life. It gives you vision. But you can’t acquire it if you’re afraid of keeping score.”

— Pat Summitt

“Someday, I suppose I’ll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I’ll probably be rocking fast, because I don’t know…

— Pat Summitt

“Confidence is what happens when you’ve done the hard work that entitles you to succeed.”

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

“Yes. It is. —June 23, 2012, at night driving from Henrietta back to Knoxville with the tape recorder off, thirteen months after diagnosis”

— Pat Summitt

If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

— 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

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't…

— 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

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind…

— Pat Summitt

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you…

— Pat Summitt

There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into…

— 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 am about helping each and every student athlete that selects to wear the orange, you know, be successful at Tennessee individually…

— Pat Summitt

I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them…

— Pat Summitt

I was a little concerned about it when State Farm approached me because, you know, I've never done a commercial by any…

— 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

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

— Pat Summitt

“Kay very calmly and sweetly said, “You know, Pat, how much better do you think Lea Henry and Cindy Noble are going…

— 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

I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach…

— 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

“My short-term factual memory can be like water; events are a brief disturbance on the surface and then it closes back up…

— Pat Summitt