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
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
I was a little concerned about it when State Farm approached me because, you know, I've never done a commercial by any means, but I tried to look at it as something that would be good for our game. We've never had a women's basketball coach represented in that fashion and I love State Farm for the fact they really support the women's game.
Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.
Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.
The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them - or at least figure out how to work around them.
Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
Success is a project that's always under construction.