Quote

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

Pat Summitt

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Pat Summitt
Age: 64 †
Born: 1952
Born: June 14
Died: 2016
Died: June 28
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Clarksville
Tennessee
Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
Patricia Sue Pat Summitt
Patricia Susan Summitt
Wrong
Make
Accountable
Never
Nba
Admit
Improve
Mistakes
Basketball
Mistake

More quotes by Pat Summitt

Image
You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.
Pat Summitt
Image
I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
Pat Summitt
Image
I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
Pat Summitt
Image
I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.
Pat Summitt
Image
I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
Pat Summitt
Image
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
Image
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
Pat Summitt
Image
It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
Pat Summitt
Image
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
Image
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
Pat Summitt
Image
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.
Pat Summitt
Image
Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
Pat Summitt
Image
Hard work breeds self-respect.
Pat Summitt
Image
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
Image
I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
Pat Summitt
Image
There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
Pat Summitt
Image
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.
Pat Summitt
Image
Success is a project that's always under construction.
Pat Summitt
Image
There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
Pat Summitt
Image
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
Pat Summitt