Quote

There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

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
Champion
Uncomfortable
Willing
Saying
Someone

More quotes by Pat Summitt

Image
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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
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
Image
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
Pat Summitt
Image
If I aint happy, nobody's happy.
Pat Summitt
Image
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.
Pat Summitt
Image
I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach more than basketball. You teach life skills. The teaching part of it is something that I am passionate about. I look forward to every practice. A lot of people say well, I enjoy coaching, but I see myself as more as a teacher.
Pat Summitt
Image
Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.
Pat Summitt
Image
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.
Pat Summitt
Image
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
Pat Summitt
Image
I am about helping each and every student athlete that selects to wear the orange, you know, be successful at Tennessee individually and as a team. That type of record is certainly not anything that I have aspirations to reach.
Pat Summitt
Image
When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.
Pat Summitt
Image
Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
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
Actually, when I saw it in USA Today, I just, Candace Parker was, we were warming up in practice and she was underneath the basket shooting and I just said, 'Hey Candace! I enjoyed what I read in the paper today about your decision [to stay].' She just started laughing and I did too. So I haven't discussed it with her.
Pat Summitt
Image
I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
Pat Summitt
Image
Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
Pat Summitt
Image
You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive
Pat Summitt