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
My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
She taught me that it's ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Class is more important than a game.
Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.
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.