Quote

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

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
Leading
Example
Right
Thing
Always

More quotes by 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
The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
Pat Summitt
Image
Hard work breeds self-respect.
Pat Summitt
Image
There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.
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
The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
Pat Summitt
Image
I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
Pat Summitt
Image
I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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
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
Image
I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
Pat Summitt
Image
I don't give out compliments easily.
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 really felt like we had to have a go to player.
Pat Summitt
Image
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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
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
There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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
Image
If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
Pat Summitt