More from Pat Summitt
I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.
Pat SummittPat Summitt I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
Pat SummittPat Summitt Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
Pat SummittPat Summitt There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
Pat SummittPat Summitt It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
Pat SummittPat 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 is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
Pat SummittPat Summitt Make Winning an Attitude.
Pat SummittPat Summitt To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
Pat SummittPat Summitt Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
Pat SummittPat Summitt Class is more important than a game.
Pat SummittPat Summitt I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
Pat SummittPat Summitt Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
Pat SummittPat Summitt Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
Pat SummittPat Summitt Winners are not born, they are self-made.
Pat SummittPat Summitt No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
Pat SummittPat 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 care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Pat SummittPat Summitt
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on attitude
I studied every thing but never topped. But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees
Bill GatesBill Gates One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
Malcolm XMalcolm X Real girls aint never perfect, perfect girls aint real.
DrakeDrake Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
Vince LombardiVince Lombardi What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.
Muhammad AliMuhammad Ali Don’t let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella.
Mae WestMae West If it can bleed, we can kill it.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Schwarzenegger