Quotes by Pat Summitt

About Pat Summitt:

Patricia Sue "Pat" Summitt is a former women's college basketball head coach. She now serves as the head coach emeritus of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team. She holds the record for 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, always with the Lady Vols, winning eight NCAA championships, surpassed only by the 10 titles won by UCLA coach John Wooden and the 10 titles won by UConn coach Geno Auriemma. She was the first NCAA coach, and one of four college coaches overall, to achieve at least 1,000 wins (she achieved 1,098). She has the most wins of any NCAA basketball coach.
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Someday, I suppose I’ll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I’ll probably be rocking fast, because I don’t know what I’ll do without a job.

Pat Summitt

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.

Pat Summitt

My short-term factual memory can be like water; events are a brief disturbance on the surface and then it closes back up again, as if nothing ever touched it. But it’s a strange fact that my long-term memory remains strong, perhaps because it recor...

Pat Summitt

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.'

Pat Summitt

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.

Pat Summitt

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.

Pat Summitt

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

Pat Summitt

I think I can help others just by my example.

Pat Summitt

Class is more important than a game.

Pat Summitt

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.

Pat Summitt

I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

Pat Summitt

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

Pat Summitt

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

Pat Summitt

Author Bio

  • NamePat Summitt
  • DescriptionBasketball player and coach
  • BornJune 14, 1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBasketball Player; Basketball Coach
  • AwardsPresidential Medal Of Freedom; Arthur Ashe Courage Award