Pat Summitt Quotes

• 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.

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• Sometimes I draw blanks.

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• Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.

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• I’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

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• I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.

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• I think I can help others just by my example.

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• I lost my confidence.

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• I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’

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• I don’t want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.

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• I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn’t coming to me.

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• Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer’s disease.

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• Class is more important than a game.

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Pat Summitt (12)

Birth:	14th June, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Basketball Player, Coach

About

Pat Summitt is a former women's college basketball head coach. She now serves as the head coach emeritus of the Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team. She holds the most all-time wins for a coach in NCAA basketball history of either a men's or women's team in any division. She coached from 1974 to 2012, all with the Lady Vols, winning eight NCAA national championships, behind only the record 10 titles won by UCLA men's coach John Wooden and the 9 titles won by UConn women's coach Geno Auriemma. She is the only coach in NCAA history, and one of three college coaches overall, with at least 1,000 victories.

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