321 Quotes by Pat Summitt

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

Sometimes I draw blanks.

I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.

I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'

I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.

I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.

I lost my confidence.