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Pat Summitt Biography

Patricia Sue Summitt (née Head; June 14, 1952 – June 28, 2016) was an American women's college basketball head coach who accrued 1,098 career wins, the most in college basketball history upon her retirement. 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 NCAA women's record when she retired) and the third most all time.

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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

Champion, Old, Old Saying, Uncomfortable, Willing

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

Quit, Quitting, Strong, Times, Tough

When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you,'

Dad, Days Off, Farm, Growing Up, Take, Work

You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. . . . My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.

Air, Hay, Jobs, Success, Ways

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.

Player, Care, Taught, Players, Let

Make Winning an Attitude.

Attitude, Make, Winning

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.

Cruel, Faith, Flying, God, Lighten, Things

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

Essentials, Experiment, May, Sports, Success, Willingness

I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.

Allowed, Coaching, Enjoyed, Staff, Team, Thinking

You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

Basketball, Disappears, Pick, Responsible, Tired

If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

Caring, Coach, Renowned, Tough, Volleyball

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

Attitude, Basketball, Concrete, Win, Winning

I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.

Believe, Played, Role, Team, Thinking

I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

Basically, Hate, Love, Sick, Sports

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

Athlete, Athletes, Coaching, Love Is, Teaching, Tennessee

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

Basketball, Discipline, Self, Teach, Ultimate

See yourself as self employed.

Employed, See, Self

I didn't say a lot. I didn't throw anything. That's not my style. I did think about it though.

Say, Style, Think, Thinking, Though

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them

Experience, Losing, Reveals, Strength, Strengthens, Volleyball

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Basketball, Competitive, Nba, Person, Room, Rooms

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