Quotes from Pat Summitt

Sometimes I draw blanks.

I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.

I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

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.

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them

Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

Success is a project that's always under construction.