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
Management wanted to go into a different direction.
There is no question that (Army is) very well-coached and Maggie has done a great job.
When she took off, I thought she's going to try to dunk the ball. I was good with it. I thought she just committed to it a little too early.
We have to learn to handle better. We have to do it by committee when we don't have a point guard on the floor.
We wish them success in all of their future endeavors.
We've just been a very poor defensive team in a lot of games.
I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
We can take this and get focused and get ready and earn our respects as we get ready to play Army.
There are some coaches who believe you just let the best players get all the points they can and stop everybody else. Others limit the best player and make other people beat you. For us, we want to guard everybody. But we really want to make sure that we make it hard or at least difficult for that player to continually make the plays.
We're facing a new opponent and trying to learn as much as we can about Army at this time and get ready for March Madness.
We remembered that. They had the ball and every opportunity to beat us in the last seconds. You want your team to respect every opponent regardless of record. Our team really respected this team.
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.
There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one