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
When a team takes ownership, good things happen.
God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.
The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.
Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.
Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.
It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.