Pat Summitt

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

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.

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

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

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

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

Hard work breeds self-respect.

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.

Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.

You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

Class is more important than a game.

Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

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.

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.

I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

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.

I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

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.