Pat Summitt quotes are what legends are made of

Pat Summitt, the Head Coach of the University of Tennessee Women's Basketball "The Lady Vols" has seven national championships to go along with over 100 career wins in the NCAA National Tournament, the most of any coach in history. Coach Summitt has more ladies playing in the WNBA than any coach in history, and she has more wins than other coach in the history of College Basketball Men or Women programs.

Coach Pat Summitt Quotes...

1. "you can't push a piece of string but you can pull it."{at the beginning of every season she asks what kind of basketball does her team want to play and then sets the plays to that style}
   
2. "Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have."
   
3. "That's much harder than coaching and a lot more stressful," she says. "I’m going to stay right here." {on people suggesting that she could be a politician}
   
4. "Winners aren't born, they are self-made."
   
5. "I learned my life skills on a dairy farm,"{on talking about her youth and stern parents}
   
6. "We are right where we want to be, they fought through adversity and never quit" {on how they reached the 2008 national championship after beating a hard nosed LSU team}
   
7. "My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner."
   
8. "You have to compete harder than you have ever competed in your life, if you want to win a national championship" {ESPN commercial 2008}
   
9. "I love teaching and the court is my classroom and I am here to make sure everyone gets an A"{half-time of the 2008 national championship game}
   

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