Pat Summitt

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

— Pat Summitt

Class is more important than a game.

— Pat Summitt

Put the Team Before Yourself.

— Pat Summitt

I lost my confidence.

— Pat Summitt

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

— Pat Summitt

I think I can help others just by my example.

— Pat Summitt

Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

— Pat Summitt

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

— Pat Summitt

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

— Pat Summitt

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.

— Pat Summitt

You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

— Pat Summitt

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away…

— Pat Summitt

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

— 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

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

— Pat Summitt

I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always…

— Pat Summitt

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers.…

— Pat Summitt

“—December 13, 2011, Piscataway, New Jersey, on the road with the Lady Vols, seven months after diagnosis”

— Pat Summitt

A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make…

— 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

“about one’s life; memories are unreliable—they smudge, and fade, like disappearing footprints in the sand. We’re too busy standing in the middle…

— Pat Summitt

Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone…

— Pat Summitt

I've always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It's important because basketball is short term. The long term…

— Pat Summitt

You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to…

— Pat Summitt

Actually, when I saw it in USA Today, I just, Candace Parker was, we were warming up in practice and she was…

— Pat Summitt

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my…

— Pat Summitt

“But the truly ambitious teams find relief in honesty when they’ve lost, because it’s the diagnostic tool that leads to a solution—here’s…

— Pat Summitt

“I want to ask you a tough question. Okay. If you could trade your championships for your health back, would you? Uhhhh.…

— Pat Summitt

“To teach Shelley to be more forceful, I resorted to a method you wouldn’t find in any instructional. I made her plan…

— Pat Summitt

I think basketball has changed tremendously and for the better. I think that obviously the game is better. I think the skill…

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

— Pat Summitt

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

— Pat Summitt

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

— Pat Summitt

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

— Pat Summitt

I mean, we're always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.

— Pat Summitt

“they don’t care how much you know, unless they know how much you care.”

— Pat Summitt