Quote

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

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
Succeeds
Myth
Succeed
Success
Individual

More quotes by Pat Summitt

Image
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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
With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
Pat Summitt
Image
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.
Pat Summitt
Image
If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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
I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
Pat Summitt
Image
Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
Pat Summitt
Image
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
Pat Summitt
Image
To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
Pat Summitt
Image
I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
Pat Summitt
Image
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
Pat Summitt
Image
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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
It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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
The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
Pat Summitt
Image
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,'
Pat Summitt