Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Summitt

If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.

Pat Summitt

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

Pat Summitt

Put the Team Before Yourself.

Pat Summitt

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

Pat Summitt

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

We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

Pat Summitt

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

Pat Summitt

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

Pat Summitt

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

Pat Summitt

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Pat Summitt

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

Pat Summitt

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

I was a little concerned about it when State Farm approached me because, you know, I've never done a commercial by any means, but I tried to look at it as something that would be good for our game. We've never had a women's basketball coach represented in that fashion and I love State Farm for the fact they really support the women's game.

Pat Summitt

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

Pat Summitt

You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

Pat Summitt

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them - or at least figure out how to work around them.

Pat Summitt

Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.

Pat Summitt

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

Pat Summitt

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Pat Summitt

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

Pat Summitt

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Pat Summitt

Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

Pat Summitt

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

Paul Pierce

You've got to watch your back. We are targets as basketball payers.

Paul Pierce

Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'

Paul Pierce

Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.

Paul Pierce

The game isn't over till the clock says zero.

Mark Gottfried

We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.

Mark Gottfried

Hearing improves with PRAISE!

Mark Gottfried

Have a vision. Sell your program. Your team is going to reflect you.

Pat Buchanan

It's in the struggle itself that you define yourself.

Pat Conroy

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

Pat Conroy

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.