black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
PAT SUMMITT

Belief Cruelty Fly God Inspirational Light Religious Room
Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
PAT SUMMITT

Believe Discipline Myself People
Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
PAT SUMMITT

Ambitious Kind Prosperity Success Way Yourself
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
PAT SUMMITT

Champion Game Offense Ticket Win
Combine practice with belief.
PAT SUMMITT

Belief Combination Practice
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
PAT SUMMITT

Karma Loyalty Side Yourself
It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
PAT SUMMITT

Expectation Experience People Rise Seek
You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
PAT SUMMITT

Motivational Shot
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
PAT SUMMITT

Better Game Shoot Sports Yourself
I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
PAT SUMMITT

Champion Different Face Myself National Sports Time Win
Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
PAT SUMMITT

Defeat Hard Work Work Yourself
I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
PAT SUMMITT

Career Goodbye Help Play Success Woman Young Yourself
Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
PAT SUMMITT

Class Excitement Games Myself People Practice
I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
PAT SUMMITT

Morning Myself Thinking Wake Up
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
PAT SUMMITT

Examination Force Learning Lose Time Win Yourself
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
PAT SUMMITT

Execution Win

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Pat Summitt Quotes