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
You don't win a basketball game in the first half, but you certainly can lose one.
This one is a tough, tough bracket. But if you're going to win a national championship you are going to have to beat the best teams along the way. Sometimes you have to do that in a regional instead of a Final Four.
We have to win that basketball game to have a chance to win the league, and that's still our goal.
She's like me. We're extremely competitive. But we're good enough friends so that we've been able to compete knowing that when you do, you know there's a winner and loser. But the friendship goes beyond basketball.
You have to control the defensive boards if you want to win at this stage. I'm concerned about ball control and being on the boards. That's a way you can control the tempo of a game.
They want to win and they want to be in Boston. Sometimes life isn't fair.
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
Make Winning an Attitude.
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
Winners are not born, they are self-made.