321 Quotes by Pat Summitt

If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

We feel like we get everybody's best shot because we're Tennessee, but we have to learn how to give everybody our best shot.

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.

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

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

This one is a tough, tough bracket. But if you're going to win a national championship you are going to have to beat the best teams along the way. Sometimes you have to do that in a regional instead of a Final Four.

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.

Everyone thinks we might curl up and die, both programs. I don't think it's going to happen, so put away your hankies.

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