Quotes from Pat Summitt

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

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.

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.

My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.

There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.

The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.

I think I can help others just by my example.

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.

I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.

When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.

I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you're OK but you could be better.

I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

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.

I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Hard work breeds self-respect.

Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

Make Winning an Attitude.

Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.