Pat Summitt
Pat Summitt
Patricia Sue "Pat" Summittwas an American college basketball head coach whose 1,098 career wins are the most in NCAA basketball history. She served as the head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team from 1974 to 2012, before retiring at age 59 because of a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. She won eight NCAA championships, a number surpassed only by the 10 titles won by UCLA men's coach John Wooden and the 11 titles won by UConn...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth14 June 1952
CityClarksville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors
Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
Put the Team Before Yourself.
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.
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.
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
Sit up straight, listen and participate.
Make Winning an Attitude.
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.
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.