Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
PAT SUMMITTResponsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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I don’t give out compliments easily.
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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.
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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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.
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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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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.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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.
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