Pat Summitt

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

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.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

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

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

Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

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.

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

Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.

If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

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.'

Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.

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

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them

I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. .. You don't just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.