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
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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.
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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.
The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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,'
Hard work breeds self-respect.
You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.
Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.