Auburn’s Bruce Pearl on passing of Pat Summitt
On what the biggest thing was he learned from Pat Summitt…
“Pat Summitt saw things in people that they did not see in themselves. Pat Summitt never apologized to any one of her players for expecting the most out of them, demanding it and getting it. She was a great friend. She was as loyal as they came. If you were a friend of Pat Summitt’s, she was always there for you. She was a great mother. But she had the ability to get the most out of her ladies as much as anybody. She was the most accomplished person in her field and the humblest woman I knew. She was the best at what she did. She was always reading, writing, asking questions, watching tapes, watching the Olympics, watching European basketball trying to stay on the cutting edge, always trying to get better. She created a brand called the Lady Vols. Enough said. You say Lady Vol, and Pat created a brand that said it all.”
