Pat Summitt Basketball Quotations

She gives our basketball team a lot of energy. She helps us improve our early offense, our transition, with her ability to push tempo. From that standpoint, it was good. I thought she tried to do a little too much (Tuesday) night. I think she?s still trying to get back in the groove.

She made playing basketball fun due to her ability to connect with her players. Personally, I am going to miss her tremendously and I know the game is going to miss her.

Obviously, this was a tough battle for both teams. A great basketball game I'm sure to watch, a challenging one to play in and coach.

I think we're a better basketball team now than when we played them. I feel good that we can go inside against them.

We have a mutual respect for this game and working with young people, not just on the basketball court but to see these young women become confident and successful in career opportunities beyond basketball.

We have to win that basketball game to have a chance to win the league, and that's still our goal.

We have a different agenda. But she's a very dear friend of mine. I'm really proud of the year she's had. She's done a great job with her basketball team and with the North Carolina program.

You don't win a basketball game in the first half, but you certainly can lose one.

This Georgia basketball team statistically is very impressive. They shoot the ball well from the floor as well as the free throw line. I'm impressed with their speed and quickness overall as a team and they're not at all shy at putting up the three-ball and that extends and challenges your defense.

They're a solid basketball team. They've got all the parts.

They are one impressive basketball team. If they play like they did tonight, it'll be hard for this team to lose.

I just want her to play the game under control. And for her, it's much different from any player I've ever coached in that she can be flat-footed and go up and dunk. So it's not like things have to be perfect in her basketball world for her to dunk. If she goes up inside and dunks it, more power to her.

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

I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

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

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

Put the Team Before Yourself.

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

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.

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

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

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

You could put our entire basketball team and our entire coaching staff in one room, and she has more poise and more composure than any of us. It shows up on the court. I could be about to lose my mind and she's just calm.

You can't win a basketball game in the first half, but you can lose one. We just dug ourselves too big a hole.