If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
PAT SUMMITTYou can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
-
-
Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
PAT SUMMITT -
Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
PAT SUMMITT -
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
PAT SUMMITT -
When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’
PAT SUMMITT -
The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
PAT SUMMITT -
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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 SUMMITT -
In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
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 care how much you know until they know how much you care.
PAT SUMMITT -
The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
PAT SUMMITT -
I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
PAT SUMMITT -
Success is a project that’s always under construction.
PAT SUMMITT -
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
PAT SUMMITT -
You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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 is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
PAT SUMMITT -
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
PAT SUMMITT -
I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
PAT SUMMITT -
There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
PAT SUMMITT -
Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
PAT SUMMITT -
Sit up straight, listen and participate.
PAT 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 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 do.
PAT SUMMITT -
I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
PAT SUMMITT -
I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
PAT SUMMITT -
The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
PAT SUMMITT -
I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
PAT SUMMITT