Pat Summitt Quotes

I've been a Nike athlete since day one.

I like women's basketball.

You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.

I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.

Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.

Don't dismiss Auriemma and UConn just because their excellence shines on the female side of the coin.

Maya Moore is one of the greatest champions in basketball, male or female.

The reality is, like, women's basketball players are playing against women. And we're all in the same boat the same way men's sports is.

My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.

My heart is with the WNBA. I've had success in the league, I've loved the league. I'm a true fan of the league.

I'm an NBA player with no shoe deal. No endorsement deal. And I play in New York!

Coming onto the Jordan Brand absolutely gives more attention to women's basketball and basketball in general.

Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.

I don't want to have my face on the cover of a Wheaties box. I wanna have my face on the cover of a Rice Krispies box. "Snap, Krackle, Mitch and Pop"!

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

I don't think they should be against the NFL because the NFL, those are two big games. I don't think it would be good for the NFL and I don't think it would be good for the debates.

Goldie Hawn has always been a beauty and fashion icon to me. She radiates joy and infuses beauty into everything through her smile and spirit. She is a great example of what real beauty means to me.

Leadership starts at the top.

It makes me think about how you hear these young people say, "I see you, man." Or even if you go and watch some basketball game over the summer and the announcer goes, "I see you," and you see that player smile. You know what I mean? That thing of just being recognized, especially when you do a little subtle thing. I don't know.

I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare let the day go by without making an offering, whether you mean it or not. Money exceeds affection.

I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it's a wonderful means of self-expression.

Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.

Experience is everything. It means so much because it enabled me to learn the game even faster. Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.