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Which one is your favorite PHS quote?

She never mentions anyhing about x and o's, but she sucked at that according to most, greatest WCBB coach ever, effort, hardwork and attitude, the staples of the Lady Vols program.

Pat4life. Miss ya...

Can you please help Holly instill these qualities in this group of Lady Vols?



Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
Pat Summitt

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


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

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.
Pat Summitt

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

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

Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
Pat Summitt

Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
Pat Summitt

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
Pat Summitt

Success is a project that's always under construction.
Pat Summitt

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

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.
Pat Summitt

You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
Pat Summitt

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
Pat Summitt

I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
Pat Summitt

Hard work breeds self-respect.
Pat Summitt

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

Pat Summitt

Make Winning an Attitude.
Pat Summitt

Put the Team Before Yourself.
Pat Summitt

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

Pat Summitt

I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you're OK but you could be better.
Pat Summitt

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors
Pat Summitt

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

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
Pat Summitt

You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.

Pat Summitt
 
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Which one is your favorite PHS quote?

She mentions nothing about x and o's, but she sucked at that according to most, greatest WCBB coach, and she never basketball, nothing effort, hardwork and attitude, the staples of the Lady Vols program.

Pat4life. Miss ya...

Can you please help Holly instill these qualities in this group of Lady Vols?



Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
Pat Summitt

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


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

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.
Pat Summitt

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

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

Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
Pat Summitt

Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
Pat Summitt

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
Pat Summitt

Success is a project that's always under construction.
Pat Summitt

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

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.
Pat Summitt

You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
Pat Summitt

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
Pat Summitt

I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
Pat Summitt

Hard work breeds self-respect.
Pat Summitt

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

Pat Summitt

Make Winning an Attitude.
Pat Summitt

Put the Team Before Yourself.
Pat Summitt

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

Pat Summitt

I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you're OK but you could be better.
Pat Summitt

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors
Pat Summitt

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

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
Pat Summitt

You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.

Pat Summitt

Pat's quotes are great. Your opening paragraph needs some editing.
Maybe this " She never MENTIONS basketball. Nothing BUT effort, hardwork and attitude. THOSE are the staples of the Lady Vols program".
 
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Here's how I'm going to beat you. I am going to outwork you! That's it. That's all there is to it.

Love it!
 
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“In 35 years coaching, this probably has been the least energy of any team I’ve coached,” Summitt said. “I’m not good at coaching effort. It was a total lack of passion. I don’t know that you can teach that to a player.”

PHS

If there is one thing I can’t abide it’s lack of effort. I don’t have much sympathy for people who act like they can’t stand their jobs.

PHS

I could throw open the door of the Tennessee locker room and show you all the inner workings of our program, and you still wouldn’t beat us, if you weren’t willing to outwork us.

PHS
 
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You can’t always be the strongest or most talented or most gifted person in the room, but you can be the most competitive. Competition allows you to influence your opponent.
 
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This is by far the most useful information ever put on VN and maybe the internet.

My favorite: 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

CBJ's favorite: Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
Pat Summitt
 
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Just in case Holly reads this board as it has been claimed: "Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them."

I also like the quote about making shots is the most important part of the game. The current team should heed that one.
 
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Just in case Holly reads this board as it has been claimed: "Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them."

I also like the quote about making shots is the most important part of the game. The current team should heed that one.

Listening to fans, probably...Listening to other coaches, maybe there might be some merit in that.
 
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My favorite PHS quote:

"God doesn't take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly."

This describes my son's life - things he lost and had to give up because of his battle with his health, a significant loss in his life this past summer, subsequently followed by a huge gain that he is absolutely reveling in now at the University of Tennessee.

I love this quote SO much. ❤️
 
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My favorite PHS quote:

"God doesn't take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly."

This describes my son's life - things he lost and had to give up because of his battle with his health, a significant loss in his life this past summer, subsequently followed by a huge gain that he is absolutely reveling in now at the University of Tennessee.

I love this quote SO much. ❤️

Nice post! Hug!
 
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You can’t always be the strongest or most talented or most gifted person in the room, but you can be the most competitive. Competition allows you to influence your opponent.

I still consider Pat to be the greatest WBB coach of all time. If not for Pat, the game would still be played in anonymity. Pat created what we have in WBB today.Yes, Genno may win 10 more championships, however, without Pat, those championships might mean little if anything. I miss Pat and those sideline stares. Pat is women's basketball.:good!:
 
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I still consider Pat to be the greatest WBB coach of all time. If not for Pat, the game would still be played in anonymity. Pat created what we have in WBB today.Yes, Genno may win 10 more championships, however, without Pat, those championships might mean little if anything. I miss Pat and those sideline stares. Pat is women's basketball.:good!:

Nice post!
 
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Some of these quotes rank up there with The General's Maxims. In fact, Butch Jones would do well to read and heed some of this sage advice.

And while it might not have bee as uplifting as some of these, I'll always appreciate "Suck it up Buttercup"
 
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