Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Summitt

I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.

Pat Summitt

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

Pat Summitt

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

Pat Summitt

If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.

Pat Summitt

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

Pat Summitt

Put the Team Before Yourself.

Pat Summitt

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

Pat Summitt

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

We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

Pat Summitt

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

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

Pat Summitt

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.

Pat Summitt

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Pat Summitt

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

Pat Summitt

I was a little concerned about it when State Farm approached me because, you know, I've never done a commercial by any means, but I tried to look at it as something that would be good for our game. We've never had a women's basketball coach represented in that fashion and I love State Farm for the fact they really support the women's game.

Pat Summitt

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

Pat Summitt

You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

Pat Summitt

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.

Pat Summitt

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

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

Pat Summitt

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Pat Summitt

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

Pat Summitt

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Pat Summitt

Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

Pat Summitt

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

Nikki Blonsky

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

Ndamukong Suh

Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.

Muhammad Ali

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

Michael Jordan

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

Michael Jordan

I never thought a role model should be negative.

Michael Jordan

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.