Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
PAT SUMMITTSit up straight, listen and participate.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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,’
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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.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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See yourself as self employed.
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You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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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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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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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I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.
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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
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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.
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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.
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Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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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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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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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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