Pat Summitt Used Her Brain, Dies From Complications Of Alzheimer's Disease
"You can't ever command what happens, but y'all tin command how y'all handgrip it." - Pat Summitt
By Bob DeMarco
Pat Summitt is a legendary basketball game motorbus that died today from complication of Alzheimer's disease.
She was 64 years old.
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I 1 time met Pat Summitt long earlier she became known every bit a legend, in addition to the winningest basketball game motorbus of all time. I can't tell I knew Pat, only met her. I create hollo upward my immediate impression of her - I thought, wow, she is fierce.
I don't hateful that inward whatever negative way. She only had this tearing await inward her eyes. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 await that told y'all - y'all wanted that someone on your side.
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I believe that Pat Summitt had a Super Brain. I ofttimes wondered how she was using her brain. What was she thinking. And in addition to so I read it.
Attitude is a choice. What y'all think y'all tin do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, volition virtually belike happen.
Pat used her Super Brain inward to a greater extent than ways than one. Not solely because she rose to the travel past times of her profession, but likewise because 100 pct of her players that stayed through their eligibility possess a college degree. Now that I believe is a super accomplishment.
I hollo upward every player-every unmarried one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that y'all tin ordinarily discovery on a roadside crew, "or inward a correctional institution," every bit my friend Wendy Larry jokes.
Pat Summitt used her Super Brain.But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us every bit Lady Vols in addition to thus every bit women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I hollo upward how many of them fought for a ameliorate life for themselves. I only met them halfway.
Pat Summitt coached girls in addition to turned them into women. When they left they were good prepared to succeed inward a much bigger game - the game of life. Along amongst all of her successes, in addition to her family, these are her legacy.
When the diagnosis of belike Alzheimer's came inward Pat kept on coaching for every bit long every bit she could. She likewise decided to accept on her biggest enemy - Alzheimer's disease. The Pat Summitt Foundation came into being. At the fourth dimension Pat said,
Put away your hankies. There’s non going to endure whatever compassion party. We’re going to fight, in addition to we’re
going to create create publicly.
If y'all can, y'all mightiness desire to take in the Pat Summitt Foundation in addition to brand a donation. They likewise sell roughly pretty cool shirts that tell - We Back Pat - on them.
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