321 Quotes by Pat Summitt

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

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.

There are some coaches who believe you just let the best players get all the points they can and stop everybody else. Others limit the best player and make other people beat you. For us, we want to guard everybody. But we really want to make sure that we make it hard or at least difficult for that player to continually make the plays.

There was way too much Jackson. She's a great anchor for their program.

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

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

There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

There is no question that (Army is) very well-coached and Maggie has done a great job.

At Duke, they played great and we played bad. At times, North Carolina overwhelmed us with their speed and quickness.