Sit up straight, listen and participate.
PAT SUMMITTDiscipline yourself, so no one else has to.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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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.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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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.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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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.
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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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I don’t give out compliments easily.
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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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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.
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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
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Class is more important than a game.
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If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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Combine practice with belief.
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You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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