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 SUMMITTYou can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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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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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.
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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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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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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.
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We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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See yourself as self employed.
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Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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I don’t give out compliments easily.
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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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