Pat Summitt Quotes: Inspiration from a Basketball Legend
Success is a matter of having the discipline to do what you really know you should do, even when you don’t feel like doing it.
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
You can’t always be the strongest or most talented or most gifted person in the room, but you can be the most competitive.
Winning is fun… sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point.
You can’t pick and choose the times that you’re going to be accountable.
It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals.
Teamwork does not come naturally. It must be taught.
Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confidence or scared, will most likely happen.
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals.
Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you?re never wrong?
Teamwork is all about people. One of the most powerful tools for winning a game is the team’s understanding of its target.
You can’t always be the strongest or most talented or most gifted person in the room, but you can be the most competitive.
You win in life with people.
I remember every player?every single one?who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, ‘or in a correctional institution,’ as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway.
Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
Most people get excited about games, but I have to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
Success is a project that’s always under construction.
Offense sells tickets. Defense wins games. Rebounds win championships.
Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
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.
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confidence or scared, will influence your behavior.
Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
Success is a project that’s always under construction.
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals.
Winning is fun… Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point.
It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
Things do not get easier with each game, they get tougher.
Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
Even one player not focused on the task at hand can disrupt everything.
When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my best recreation was always reading.
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
People like to put you in a box, and I’ve always lived outside the box.