Pat Summitt Sports Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

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.

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

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