Pat Summitt Quotes
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
You win in life with people.
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
Hard work does not guarantee success, but no success is possible without hard work.
Discipline, the kind that lasts, is internal. It’s not, ‘Do what the coach says, do what the teacher says, and the boss says.’ It’s, ‘I’m going to do this myself because I want to get better.’
Character is the ability to meet the demands of reality.
Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, develops them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
Left unattended, negative attitudes can become a breeding ground for discontent, spite, and revenge.
Pressure is a privilege.
Leadership is not a job title or position. It’s action and example.
A team’s greatest strength is its collective buy-in.
Don’t be ordinary; be extraordinary.
There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation where you will feel outmatched and outclassed.
If you don’t have the will to prepare, you don’t have the will to win.
The greatest fear of the average person is to be average.
We talk a lot about having strength of character, but we need to back it up with strength of actions.
The attitude that represents championships is: ‘I will do my best. I will not worry about what I cannot control. I will continue to learn and improve and take that attitude to my team.’
You don’t have to be the best player to be an inspiration and a great leader.
You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.
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.’
Do what you love and love what you do.
You can’t carry anyone else’s gear if your own is not strapped on tightly.
Success is not an accident. It comes as a result of hard work, perseverance, learning, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing.
Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone’s life in a very positive way are better.
You are what you think and believe. Commit, believe, and become!
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
You can’t always be the strongest or most talented, but you can be the toughest.
Faith is what fuels and sustains us through the darkest times in our lives, and it is what helps us to believe that we will come out stronger on the other side.
If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity, but in doing it.
The players that make the biggest impact are the ones who can make their teammates better.
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
Success is about having the right person in the right place at the right time, embracing everyone’s uniqueness and contributions, and enjoying the journey as a team.
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice personal recognition for organizational success.
Success comes from the difference between what is good and what is great.
Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you’re going to finish.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.
Good enough never is.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
The harder you work, the harder it is to fail.
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
You have to be confident in who you are and what you’re doing.
The will to win is inconsequential without the will to prepare.