Pat Summitt Quotes & Sayings

“When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'”

“Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.”

“Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.”

“Class is more important than a game.”

“I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'”

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

“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.”

“I lost my confidence.”

“I think I can help others just by my example.”

“I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.”