Quotes by Pat Summitt

Pat Summitt

A lot of kids just want to go play basketball, but they don’t know to play and they don’t have the skills to play. I think just the skill development right off and then play all you can, but don’t sacrifice your skill development by just playing and not working on the specifics of the game.

Basketball

Kids

Sacrifice

Actually, when I saw it in USA Today, I just, Candace Parker was, we were warming up in practice and she was underneath the basket shooting and I just said, ‘Hey Candace! I enjoyed what I read in the paper today about your decision [to stay].’ She just started laughing and I did too. So I haven’t discussed it with her.

Laughing

Practice

Usa

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

Attitude

Basketball

Thinking

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don’t have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you’ll find yourselves spinning your wheels.

Jigsaw Puzzles

Player

Team

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.

Havens

Improvement

Self

Class is more important than a game.

Class

Games

Important

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

Fans

Listening

Wind

Combine practice with belief.

Belief

Practice

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer's

Competition

Fighting

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

Average

Excellent Work

Jobs

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Always Trying

Alzheimer's

Attitude

Average

Basketball

Beats

Belief

Believe

Body

Bother

Bottom

Break

Care

Caring

Challenges

Champion

Championship

Class

Climbs

Coaching

Colleagues

College

Common

Communication

Competition

Cost

Decision

Determine

Differences

Discipline

Doe

Effort

Employed

Example

Excellent Work

Execution

Faith

Fans

Felt

Fighting

Flying

Games

Get Better

Girl

Giving

Goal

God

Goodbye

Hard Work

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Quotes by Pat Summitt

Pat Summitt

A lot of kids just want to go play basketball, but they don’t know to play and they don’t have the skills to play. I think just the skill development right off and then play all you can, but don’t sacrifice your skill development by just playing and not working on the specifics of the game.

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

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.

Class is more important than a game.

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

Combine practice with belief.

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer’s disease.

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

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