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Pat Summitt [1952-0] American

Rank: 102
Coach, Basketball coach

Patricia Sue "Pat" Summitt was an American women's college basketball head coach who, over the course of her career, accrued 1,098 career wins, the most in NCAA basketball history.

Dad, Faith, Morning

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.	Faith	101
I think I can help others just by my example.		102
Class is more important than a game.		103
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	104
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.		105
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.		106
Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.		107
I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.	Morning	108
I lost my confidence.		109
I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'		110
I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.		111
Sometimes I draw blanks.		112
Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.		113
Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.		114
The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.		115
I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.		116
I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.		117
Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.		118
I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.		119
I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'		120
Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.		121
In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.		122
I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.		123
We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.		124
When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.		125

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