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

Pat Summitt

Download

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

Absence Care Negative People Yourself
Put the Team Before Yourself.
PAT SUMMITT

Dedication Team Yourself
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
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

Care Player Teaching Yourself
We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
PAT SUMMITT

Aware Body Communication Language
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

Childhood Farm Grow Hard Work Yourself
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
PAT SUMMITT

Achievement Support Surender Team Trust Work Yourself
Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
PAT SUMMITT

Belief Success Yourself
I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
PAT SUMMITT

Myself Style Thinking
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
PAT SUMMITT

Attitude Believe Choice Positive Thinking Yourself
Class is more important than a game.
PAT SUMMITT

Class Game Important
Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
PAT SUMMITT

Need Strength Weakness
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
PAT SUMMITT

Attitude Creation Practice Way Win Yourself
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

Best Responsibility Small Time Way
I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
PAT SUMMITT

Adversity Fight Myself Player Thinking
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
PAT SUMMITT

Born Build Inspirational Win
Combine practice with belief.
PAT SUMMITT

Belief Combination Practice
Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
PAT SUMMITT

Accountability Admit Improvement Mistake Wrong Yourself
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
PAT SUMMITT

Examination Force Learning Lose Time Win Yourself
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 SUMMITT

Examination Feeling Reality Strength Strong Weakness 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
The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
PAT SUMMITT

Discipline Goal Teaching
You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
PAT SUMMITT

Quit Success Yourself
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
PAT SUMMITT

Final Game Loser Preparation Win
There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
PAT SUMMITT

Competition Feeling Survive Wrong
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
I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
PAT SUMMITT

Athlete Love Myself Teaching Work

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Pat Summitt Quotes