Top 90 Pat Summitt Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.”

— Pat Summitt

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2. “Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you’re never wrong? If you don’t admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you’re bound to make the same one again.”

— Pat Summitt

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3. “It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.”

— Pat Summitt

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4. “Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.”

— Pat Summitt

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5. “Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.”

— Pat Summitt

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6. “It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals.”

— Pat Summitt

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7. “Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.”

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

9. “Winners are not born, they are self-made.”

— Pat Summitt

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10. “Sit up straight, listen and participate.”

— Pat Summitt

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11. “Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.”

— Pat Summitt

12. “You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.”

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

14. “Success is a project that’s always under construction.”

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

16. “Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.”

— Pat Summitt

17. “In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.”

— Pat Summitt

18. “Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.”

— Pat Summitt

19. “Hard work breeds self-respect.”

— Pat Summitt

20. “To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.”

— Pat Summitt

21. “See yourself as self employed.”

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

23. “Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.”

— Pat Summitt

24. “Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.”

— Pat Summitt

25. “The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.”

— Pat Summitt

26. “Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?”

— Pat Summitt

27. “In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.”

— Pat Summitt

28. “If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.”

— Pat Summitt

29. “Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.”

— Pat Summitt

30. “There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That’s when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.”

— Pat Summitt

31. “The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.”

— Pat Summitt

32. “The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.”

— Pat Summitt

33. “My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.”

— Pat Summitt

34. “The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.”

— Pat Summitt

35. “Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.”

— Pat Summitt

36. “Make Winning an Attitude.”

— Pat Summitt

37. “Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves.”

— Pat Summitt

38. “Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.”

— Pat Summitt

39. “By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could – like running the track after a two-hour practice – you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.”

— Pat Summitt

40. “No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.”

— Pat Summitt

41. “If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility.”

— Pat Summitt

42. “The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.”

— Pat Summitt

43. “When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.”

— Pat Summitt

44. “Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.”

— Pat Summitt

45. “Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.”

— Pat Summitt

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

— Pat Summitt

47. “She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

— Pat Summitt

48. “Put the Team Before Yourself.”

— Pat Summitt

49. “We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.”

— Pat Summitt

50. “You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.”

— Pat Summitt