Pat Summitt Quotes

You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

I don't have a lot of experience running basketball teams.I'm just trying to get smart enough even to understand everything going on. As much of a fan as I am, I haven't played the game since ninth-grade. If you told me when I bought the team that there were 12 kinds of pick and rolls, I would've told you I have no frickin' clue about that.

Running the triangle offense, you have pretty much set rotations where you are going to be at.

If a guy is shooting a shot in the corner 70 percent of the missed shots usually come off that other side and 30 percent hits off the front rim so just playing the percentages and kind of studying your teammates' shots throughout the course of the game.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

I always thought the objective of basketball was to get the maximum amount of movement to get the easiest shot, closest to the basket. With the three-point rule, the whole strategy changes, and you make a move and then throw it 30 feet out, where somebody takes a standing jump shot.

Just hearing somebody's voice in center field, it helps our guards out to know where they need to go, when the screen is coming, when the back door is coming, when the flare is coming. When different things like that happen and we're talking, it helps us all out in the long run.

If you give him a 3-point shot, you might as well count it. I'd rather have Steph Curry beat me 14 points and 14 assists than let him get 40. Because his 40 is just so loud. And it's because of those 3s.

When you're watching from the bench, you can pick up on everything - where guys like to shoot the ball from, how teams defend the pick-and-roll, which big men are good at hedging the screen and so on.

I had to work on the fundamentals of the game because in league, the position I played, it was just bash and crash.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

I am by no means an expert in basketball.

I'm starting to figure it out - figure out my spots, where I should be on the court, where I'm most effective, and how I handle double teams - and it's paying off.

I have seen every aspect of basketball that you can see as a player, and I think they can relate to that, and I can understand them.

I had watched Magic my whole career, even before my career, and so I knew the style of player that he was, and I knew what I had to do to prohibit him from being as effective on the basketball court as he had been throughout his career.

What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots

It was just weird. Once you get the ball and you get in a situation, it's like haywire, everything goes crazy, and everybody's running around. You don't know who to pass it to or what to do. So Coach said just slow down and just make the right play. I tried to get the best look I could at the basket.

I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?

I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.

The thing I love about the NBA game is that it's a playmaker's league.

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.

Baseball is a set of individuals doing their thing in the same team, but it's much more individual. In basketball people are making real time decisions about who gets the ball, do we trust everybody out on the court, and the analytics certainly don't show you all those subtle dynamics, but they're very important.