Index4INDEX Card 348: Pat Summitt 2
Losing is one thing. Losing the way we did tonight is unacceptable.
-- Pat Summitt
For more about Pat Summitt, keep reading....
About the Quote
No one likes to lose, but losing is a part of life. Even a team which sets the new record for victories in a long season has a small number of losses (except in the National Football League, where only 16 or 17 games are played in a regular season). If it's handled properly, losing is used as an opportunity to build a sustainable record of winning.
It's one thing to lose. It's another thing to lose in a disgraceful fashion: unsportsmanlike conduct; cheating; laziness; stupidity; ignorance; lack of concern; lack of self-control; lack of will; ...
If a team does everything properly and still loses, that's OK; one team has to lose. If a team loses because it simply ran out of time, that's understandable because that happens to all teams. If a team loses, it should always be because it got beat by a better team; it should never be because the team beat itself.
Some (More) Information about Pat Summitt
In 1974-- at age 22-- Pat Head was namedhead coach of thr Lady Volunteers women's basketball program at University of Tennessee. In her first season, the Lady Vols finished with a W-L record of 16-8 for a 0.667 winning percentage. Due to the way she made her players train and play, they acquired a certain look about them, and this look put fear into opposing teams.
In 1980 Pat head married R. B. Summitt; they divorded in 2008.
During the 1987 season, Pat Summitt won her 300th game. That same season, she led the Lady Volunteers to their first NCAA Championship.
1996 was a milestone year for Pat Summitt:
- By 1996, the Lady Volunteers had also won NCAA Championships in 1989 and 1991;
- 1996 would be the start of a 3-year run of championships (1996, 1997, and 1998);
- She would become the 2nd female head coach to win 600 NCAA games.
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