E1390 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks July 26, 1996 a stable perimeter around the South Korean I urge my colleagues and my fellow Ameri- So Richard Head moved his family of seven port of Pusan. cans, each in their own fashion, to honor the some six miles down the road, to tiny unin- The U.N. counterattack led by the United veterans of the Korean war on this anniver- corporated Henrietta in neighboring States in September 1950 rolled back the Cheatham County. Then, Trish could play sary of the armistice. ball over at Cheatham County High School North Korean invaders, forcing the North Ko- f in Ashland City. Her first year, she caught a rean Army up the Korean peninsula nearly to Trailways bus home every day. the Chinese border. The amphibious landing A TRIBUTE TO COACH PAT HEAD ‘‘Everybody thought I had lost my mind,’’ at Inchon was a brilliant strategic move that in SUMMITT Hazel Head says. The family moved from a one bold stroke transformed defeat into victory new home to an old, drafty house near their and destroyed the bulk of the North Korean HON. JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR. community grocery. ‘‘That old house was Army. The Chinese entrance on the side of OF TENNESSEE cold as kraut.’’ the North Koreans changed the nature and the Richard Head says simply: ‘‘I just knew she IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wanted to play ball.’’ dynamic of the war. For the next 6 months, Friday, July 26, 1996 Pat Summitt coaches basketball the way the battle lines surged back and forth along she played basketball—intensely. the Korean peninsula as U.N. and Communist Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, I recently had ‘‘The amount of work it takes to be suc- offensives met with varying degrees of suc- the privilege of hosting a luncheon in honor of cessful does not detour Pat,’’ says former cess before the front stabilized just north of the Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team, the UCLA coach Billie Moore, who coached 1996 national champions. The team was later Summitt on the 1976 silver medal U.S. Olym- the 38th parallel. For the next 2 years, a bitter pic team. ‘‘In the coaching game, she is not but more limited war was fought as truce ne- honored along with the Kentucky men's team in a special ceremony and reception at the going to leave anything for granted. She was gotiations dragged on. Chinese tactics often that way when I first met her.’’ neutralized the U.N. forces' superior firepower, White House. Growing up on the family’s Middle Ten- and the war became a brutal battle of attrition. Coach Pat Head Summitt, who has coached nessee dairy farm meant working—and work- An armistice agreement was signed in Pan- the Lady Vols for more than 20 years now, is ing hard. ‘‘Daddy said he wanted Mama to munjom on July 26, 1953, and hostilities finally unquestionably one of the finest coaches in have a girl, but he treated me like one of the guys,’’ Summitt says. came to an end. this Nation. She has achieved her great suc- cess through much hard work, determination, Summitt wasn’t any older than 10 or 11 The valor of U.S. troops in Korea is legend- when she was driving a tractor. She set and ary. The U.S. forces that served in Korea con- and perseverance. The Knoxville News Sentinel recently ran a harvested tobacco, raked and baled hay, ducted themselves bravely in difficult cir- plowed fields and raised 4-H calves. cumstances, fighting at times against over- very fine article about Coach Summitt which I When the doors were open at Mount Car- whelming odds and often in brutal, life-threat- would like to call to the attention of my col- mel United Methodist Church near Ashland ening weather. Names like Task Force Smith, leagues and other readers of the RECORD. I City, the Heads were there. Summitt Dean's delay, the Pusan perimeter, Inchon, was particularly impressed by the great influ- couldn’t date until she was 16. Living 15 Chosan, the Iron Triangle, and the Punch ence that this article shows that Coach miles from town, she didn’t go out for pizza until her senior year in high school. ‘‘We Bowl all call to mind the heroism, sacrifice, Summitt's family had in helping her become the great leader she has become. worked, and we played basketball in the hay- and resilience that American troops displayed loft,’’ she says. in the course of this war. TENNESSEE’S PAT SUMMITT CREDITS FAMILY Richard Head ran the farm and the store, One and a half million Americans served in FOR HER ZEAL FOR HARD WORK built houses, served as water commissioner the Korean Theater during this conflict. 5.7 (By Amy McRary) and on the county court. ‘‘Miss Hazel’’ million Americans served in the military during Minutes after winning her fourth national worked as hard as her husband, mowing the the conflict. 54,246 Americans died in KoreaÐ basketball crown, Tennessee Lady Vols yard and cooking huge, country meals. The 2,300 of them from Pennsylvania. 8,000 Amer- Coach Pat Summitt went looking for the first to bring food to families after the death icans remain missing in action. people who taught her about the game. of a loved one, Hazel Head is ‘‘the hardest Tennessee had just trounced Georgia 83–65 working person I know,’’ Summitt says. Last year the Congress passed and the in the March 31 NCAA finals at the Charlotte ‘‘I’ve often said I wish I had more of my President signed legislation designating July Coliseum in North Carolina. When Summitt mom in me. I think I learned a lot from my 27 of each year through the year 2003 as Na- got to the seats where her parents, Richard mom about being a good mother. You can al- tional Korean War Veterans Armistice Day. and Hazel Head, sat, the 43-year-old coach ways count on Miss Hazel.’’ Under this law the President is directed to call got a reward she’d waited for all her life. Today, the Heads are likely the hardest- upon the American people to observe the day Tall, stern Richard Head wrapped his daugh- working retired people in Tennessee. Richard with the appropriation ceremonies and activi- ter in a bear hug and gave her a kiss. Head still works the family farmlands and ties in honor of the Americans who died as a ‘‘I’m glad you finally got to see one,’’ does some work in Springfield, over at the Summitt said to the quiet Middle Tennessee tobacco warehouse. Hazel Head helps over at result of their service in Korea. farmer with a gruff voice and sometimes the family laundry in Ashland City almost It is only appropriate that we take such ac- gruffer manner. every afternoon. The friendly and down-to- tions to remember these heroes of America's It was only the second hug and first kiss earth 70-year-old still fills three freezers of forgotten war, and to honor the supreme sac- the 73-year-old Head had ever given this her own and keeps friends and family sup- rifice that they made. We must also use this child he raised as a hardworking fourth son, plied with vegetables from the Heads’ 10-acre occasion to remember, praise, and thank the the young woman he cheered for to play garden. They still live in Henrietta, but in a veterans of the Korean war who put them- harder, the demanding coach he’d once wor- newer and warmer house Richard Head built. selves in harm's way but survived that terrible ried would be fired. Except for Summitt, all their now-grown and Patricia Sue ‘‘Trish’’ Head’s first basket- conflict. These men and women served their married children live within a five-mile ra- ball court was one end of a 100-foot hayloft. dius. country faithfully and well in a distant and Her daddy hung a goal at one end and strung In the Head family, good work was ex- often inhospitable part of the world. some lights. Her first teammate was her old- pected and didn’t need praising. Excuses Several years ago a group of concerned citi- est brother, Tommy, seven years older than weren’t accepted; laziness wasn’t tolerated. zens in western Pennsylvania decided to build his little sister and now a state legislator. Not that the Head kids questioned. a memorial in Pittsburgh to honor the men and Her first opponents were older brothers Ken- ‘‘Rebel? Are you kidding?’’ laughs women who served our country in the Korean neth and Charles. Summitt. ‘‘A lot of discipline came as a re- war. The Korean War Veterans Association of Trish gave as good as she got when they sult of fear. We had to get our own switch Western Pennsylvania Memorial Fund, Inc., played two-on-two after raking hay, milking out of the yard. And if you got a little one, cows, working tobacco. Summitt praises her Mama would get her own. I hated that.’’ was established in 1993 to design and build parents, saying they protected her from her Trish’s 16th birthday was spent on a trac- this memorial. The city of Pittsburgh donated brothers. Her only sister, Linda, is six years tor. Friends were feting her and a friend at a a site for the memorial in 1994. A national de- younger than Summitt. country club. But rain was coming and bales sign competition was held in the spring of To hear the family tell it, Trish didn’t of hay were still in the field. Richard Head 1995 and a winner was selected. An armistice need any protecting. refused to let his daughter leave. She had day memorial ceremony will be held this ‘‘I reckon she was just one of the boys,’’ work to finish. weekend on July 27 at the future site of the says Charles Head, a farmer and greenhouse ‘‘I think I wound up getting in trouble with memorial to remember and honor all of the operator. ‘‘In that hayloft, she was right in my dad that day,’’ Summitt remembers. ‘‘I the middle of us. That’s what made her was so mad I wasn’t paying attention (to her brave Americans who served in the Korean tough.’’ work). I think I got a switch that day and it war. I am proud to note that I have been As tough and as good as she was, she had wasn’t birthday licks.’’ asked to participate in this important cere- no team to play for in 1966. The high school ‘‘Richard was far more the patriarch than mony. in Clarksville didn’t have a girls’ team. Hazel was the matriarch,’’ says R.B. July 26, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1391 Summitt, Summitt’s husband of nearly 16 Consider how far she has come. Pat Head When she jogs, Summitt has to run two years. ‘‘Pat didn’t hear anything if things began coaching the year Title IX, which re- steps ahead of everyone else and has to finish were OK. If something went wrong, boom. quired equal athletic opportunities for at least a step ahead. ‘‘And the whole time Pat responds to that. Most women, I think, women, became law. she’s running—she’s talking basketball,’’ do not.’’ She was a 22-year-old graduate assistant says Warwick, a three-time All-American Affectionate expressions simply weren’t who also taught four courses. Four of her when she played for Summitt from 1976 to Richard Head’s way. ‘‘I never did like that players were 21; 50 people came to see them 1980. stuff,’’ Head says matter-of-factly. lose their first game by one point to Mercer Summitt readily admits she’s not the ‘‘Some families hug and kiss all the time, University. Between coaching, Summitt world’s most observant woman. Her narrow but we just never really did,’’ defends Hazel worked on her master’s in physical edu- focus tapers to tunnel vision during basket- Head. ‘‘It’s just the difference in people. But cation and rehabilitated an injured knee so ball season. Her assistants swear Summitt that didn’t mean you didn’t love them. He’d she could try out for the ’76 Olympics. comes to work not knowing if she’s walked work his toenails off for either of our five She was her own assistant, own trainer and in through rain or 20-degree cold. Last kids.’’ sometimes team driver. R.B. Summitt re- spring, she jogged the same route for three Attempting to win her father’s approval members hauling team equipment to games weeks before realizing a building she passed helped drive Summitt early in her career as in his Ford van after he met his future wife daily had burned. she took a program only slightly above in 1977. Current events don’t get any more atten- intramurals and made it the best in women’s Twenty years later, it’s still a family tion. Summitt was once to go to Las Vegas basketball. Her teams have won four cham- event, but the coach doesn’t drive the team to pick up an award. ‘‘Today’’ show host Bry- pionships in 13 trips to the Final Four. For 20 bus and her husband doesn’t have to load ant Gumbel and Dallas Cowboys running consecutive years, the Lady vols have won at equipment. Richard and Hazel Head drive 31⁄2 back Emmitt Smith were to attend. least 20 games. For eight seasons, including hours to some contests. R.B. Summitt has Summitt didn’t want to go—she didn’t recall the last three, Summitt’s teams have won 30 seats near the court where he can yell—loud- who those other people were. or more games. Summitt played on the 1976 ly—at officials and opposing coaches. ‘‘I have asked her before, if she will just Olympic team and coached the 1984 women’s The Summitts’ only son, 5-year-old Tyler, read one story on the front page of the paper team to a gold medal. She has repeatedly has been Summit’s traveling companion before turning to the sports section,’’ been named Coach of the Year by athletic or- since he was just months old. This spring, he DeMoss says. ‘‘And it’s not necessarily ganizations. stood on a ladder to help his mother cut the sports—it’s basketball. It’s women’s basket- ‘‘It was obvious when he (Head) was in the nets in Charlotte. ball. It’s Lady Vols basketball.’’ stands, Pat played at a different level,’’ Bil- During this season’s 18-point thrashing by One of the best stories about Summitt’s lie Moore says. ‘‘I like to kid him and say Stanford, Summitt walked to the end of the single-minded determination can be told in a it’s all a front, that he’s really a softie on bench near her son. ‘‘Mama,’’ he said sol- true story that sounds more like a tale. the inside. They are a very close, supportive emnly, ‘‘I’m doing all I can.’’ Consider the birth of sandy-haired, blue- family and having that is part of (having) ‘‘Son, she replied, ‘‘I don’t think that will eyed Ross Tyler Summitt. your confidence.’’ be enough.’’ Tyler, who can’t talk defense and rebound- Today, Pat Summitt has coached half her The Heads and Moore tell of Richard Head ing with the best of them, was nearly born life, compiling a 22-season record of 596–133. yelling ‘‘Trish, Trish’’ at his player-daughter while his mother was recruiting UT point some 8,000 fans regularly cheer the Lady through one pre-Olympic game. Teammate guard Michelle Marciniak. Vols during home games. After working 20 Trish Roberts thought that man in the The story goes like this: years without a contract, Summitt now stands was yelling at her. Summitt knew ex- Summitt was about two weeks away from earns an annual $135,000. That’s the highest actly who her daddy was hollering at. ‘‘The her due date when she and DeMoss flew to base pay of any UT coach, male or female. coach said afterward she’d never seen two Pennsylvania in September 1990 to recruit But for those first couple of years, the girls play so hard,’’ Richard Head says. Maricinak. While there, Summitt went into Lady Vols won only 16 games a season. The You’d likely zip right through Henrietta labor. third season, they hit 28 wins and never up Highway 12 from Ashland City to Clarks- But she wasn’t going to have her son any- looked back. where but in Knoxville. And it didn’t matter ville except for that big green-and-white And over in Henrietta, Richard Head was she was states away. ‘You know, Pat can be highway sign proclaiming. ‘‘Home of Pat trying to get his daughter to quit the coach- pretty stubborn,’’ DeMoss says. Head Summitt.’’ ing game. Under the green sign is a smaller, hand- ‘‘I felt like she might have a bad season, DeMoss raced her boss to the UT plane. On made one shaped something like the state of and they’d get rid of her. They won’t now for the way, Summitt’s pains increased. The Tennessee. Fashioned and fastened by the awhile, but at one time I figured they pilot offered to land in Virginia. Heads’ mail carrier, that sign reads ‘‘Lady might.’’ That sounded like a great idea to DeMoss. Vols #1 and Always #1 Here’’ in bright or- A sometimes blind, always demanding pas- Forget that archrival Virginia had defeated ange letters. sion drives the woman who is arguably the Tennessee in overtime in the NCAA East Re- Two satellite dishes stand in the Heads’ best coach in women’s basketball. gional that March. back yard, gifts from Summitt so her par- ‘‘I’ve always said, ‘Teams may beat us, but ‘‘Pat told me, ‘Mickie, you let them land ents won’t miss a game. She phones after they better not outwork us. Coaches may in Virginia, you’re going to have a mad contests. beat me, but they better not outwork me,’’’ woman on your hands.’ That was all I needed ‘‘If they lose, she doesn’t call right Summitt says. ‘‘I guess you have to be a lit- to know,’’ DeMoss recalls. straight; she’s too down,’’ Hazel Head says. tle crazy to be this driven, but I enjoy work- The plane landed at McGhee Tyson Airport ‘‘But she likes to know what we think.’’ ing.’’ in a fast two hours, black exhaust fumes Today, her assistant coaches and husband Says Mickie DeMoss, Summitt’s assistant streaking its sides. Tyler was born a few insist Summit is self-motivated. ‘‘I think she coach for 11 years: ‘‘She coaches with a lot of hours later at St. Mary’s Medical Center. is pretty well content with her folks, her passion; she does everything with a lot of The doctors said if the baby’s head had been family, her career, her life. I think it took a passion. turned differently, DeMoss would have had while,’’ says R.B. Summitt, who’s executive ‘‘If she owned Weigel’s up the road, it’d be an assist in his birth. ‘‘It was the longest two vice president of Sevier County Bank. ‘‘I the best Weigel’s in the city of Knoxville. hours of my life,’’ DeMoss says. think she always worried what her dad would Because she’d work from sun-up to sun- Down the sidelines she strides, pointing, say or think.’’ down. yelling, snarling. Her blue eyes glare ‘‘the The first hug Summitt got from her daddy ‘‘Holly (Warwick, also an assistant coach look’’ that makes an All-American cower. was last year, a conciliatory hug after a bit- for 11 years) and I often say we do things the In the comfort of your den, in the safety of ter loss to Connecticut in the NCAA cham- hard way around here,’’ DeMoss laughs. ‘‘If your Thompson-Boling seat, you’re very, pionship game. The second came with a kiss the competition is doing it one way, we’re very glad you’re not wearing Tennessee or- after this year’s championship. going to find a way to do it a little better.’’ ange. Even Richard Head thinks Trish is ‘‘To hug me and give me a big old kiss, Says Shelley Sexton, point guard on sometimes too hard on those girls. that was a first,’’ Summitt says. And she Summitt’s first 1987 championship team and ‘‘I think Daddy’s gotten more relaxed since says, her father has now told her he is now women’s basketball coach at Karns High his children have married . . . since he’s got proud—in his own matter-of-fact, under- School, ‘‘Nobody questions themselves hard- nine grandkids and two great-grandkids,’’ stated manner. er, nobody puts themselves through more, Summitt says. The Heads spent a day at the Summitts’ than Pat Head Summitt. She is a perfection- Watching Summitt, it’s hard to imagine Blount County home after this year’s NCAA ist.’’ this woman was once so reserved she dreaded tournament. As Richard Head was leaving, The slender 5-foot, 11-inch Summitt walks taking college speech classes. The nickname he told his daughter: ‘Now I don’t want to faster, drives much, much faster. ‘‘If Pat’s ‘‘Pat’’ stuck when she was too shy to tell hear any more about how I’ve never hugged not driving, putting on her makeup and talk- college classmates everybody called her you or kissed you or told you I was proud of ing all at the same time, she’s wasting her ‘‘Trish.’’ you.’’ time,’’ DeMoss says. Warwick and DeMoss Gracious one-on-one, Summitt keeps in ‘‘That was Daddy’s way of telling me he half-joke Summitt only slows down when touch with and often advises former players. was proud,’’ Summitt grins. Tyler is riding. Involved in community causes, she’s E1392 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks July 26, 1996 chairing the 1996 local United Way campaign called Warwick and DeMoss with the worst tor Garcia of Corpus Christi, who was my per- with men’s basketball coach Kevin O’Neill. of news—UT star Bridgette Gordon had se- sonal hero and one of the most important So maybe, just maybe, those flashes of vere food poisoning. sideline temper aren’t as bad as they seem. ‘‘She really had us going. And then she Americans of our time. Or maybe the end justifies the means. said, ‘April Fool.’ Ninety percent of the time Dr. Garcia was a different breed of patriot she is so serious, she can really get you,’’ Summitt makes no excuses. and citizen. Long before the issue of civil ‘‘I’m not really concerned about what peo- DeMoss says. ple say about the way I coach or my style,’’ Mellow or mature, Summitt remains one rights was on anyone else's agenda, Dr. Hec- Summitt says. ‘‘Because unless you are real- very poor loser. tor Garcia recognized the need for equal rights ly on the inside, I don’t think you can to- ‘‘She’s more like her daddy. I want them to for the citizens of the United States, particu- win, but he really is disappointed if they tally understand and appreciate communica- larly in our little corner of the world in south tion. don’t,’’ Hazel Head says. ‘‘I try to tell her, ‘‘My volume can be on 10, but my message ‘When you go out there, you know one’s Texas. Rather than make the larger elements can be very positive. My volume may be a going to lose, and one can’t do it all. You of society uncomfortable with a direct public two and it can be one of constructive criti- can’t always be on top.’ ’’ Says R.B. Summitt, ‘‘If we should have assault on the status quo, Dr. Garcia began cism. I can’t spend my career trying to lost, Pat’s not a good loser and it’s not any making quiet inroads into the system. please everybody. When I concern myself fun. But if we should not have lost, if the with people, it’s the people right here.’’ Dr. Garcia encouraged all of us to become team didn’t give effort, if we sort of gave the Through the years, 13 players have trans- game away with mistakes, then it’s worse.’’ involved. He articulated clearly, then, why it ferred out. ‘‘I’m sure my personality, my ex- ‘‘I get really sick inside,’’ Summitt says, was necessary for Hispanics to show an inter- pectations for us, had something to do with putting one hand to her chest. ‘‘I just have a est in the workings of our city, our community, it,’’ she says. terrible feeling. I cannot get it off my mind. Those around her say Summitt today yells I replay every play. I always feel there’s and our country. He underscored the basic more selectively, having adapted to changes something I could have said or done to make workings of democracy, preaching his mes- in players and differences in teams’ chem- the difference.’’ sage about the strength of numbers, the ne- istries. She’s still tough. She is hard on herself and on her players. cessity of registering to vote, and the power of ‘‘Now she still gets in their faces and she Game mistakes are replayed in hard prac- expects a lot out of them, but I think she has tices. ‘‘I’m sure the players get sick of hear- voting. really made an effort to compliment them ing it. But that’s OK. Then they’ll remember Today, Dr. Garcia's message is the political when they do well, tell them how proud she how they felt when they lost,’’ she says. is of them,’’ DeMoss says. ‘‘There’s never If you really want to feel the Summitt gospel to which we all adhere. While others been a question that she cares about her wrath, be lazy or dishonest. fought the system, often unsuccessfully, Dr. players.’’ Team policy is sacred. Going to class and Garcia worked within the system to open it up Says former Lady Vol center and current being on time are not mere suggestions. You for everyone to participate. He amazed us all University of Richmond assistant coach don’t go to class, you don’t step on the court. Sheila Frost: ‘‘Pat will drive you to the All players who remained at Tennessee four with his wisdom, foresight, and longevity. brink, but she won’t break you. I was just a years have graduated, a fact that coaches are Dr. Garcia began fighting for the cause of little farm girl when I got to Tennessee. She as proud of as those national championships. civil rights in 1948Ðlong before others joined took me under her wing and she kicked me Players who break team rules get sus- in the rear too.’’ pended. Most recently, Lady Vols center that cause. He fought for basic, fundamental The idea of playing for a demanding bas- Tiffani Johnson was not allowed to make civil, human, and individual rights. The seeds ketball icon with a temper can be intimidat- last Monday’s team trip to the White House he planted all those years ago have grown ing not just to 18-year-olds. DeMoss works to because of an undisclosed rules violation. Word is that Summitt knows everything. into ideas whose roots are firmly planted in ‘‘humanize’’ Summitt to recruits and par- south Texas. Those seeds have produced to- ents. ‘‘I tell them up front, ‘Yes, she’s tough, ‘‘She just looks at you and says, ‘I know she’s demanding. . . . She expects nothing what you’ve been doing and you just con- day's leaders, and laid the foundation for to- but your best. And if you come here, basket- fess,’’ Warwick says. morrow's leaders. Summitt suspended point guard Tiffany ball needs to be important to you because Woosley for three games her senior year As a veteran, I am particularly grateful to Dr. it’s very important to Pat.’ ’’ after Woosley made comments reportedly Call it maturity. Call it security. Don’t Garcia for his very special serviceÐboth dur- criticizing some teammates. ‘‘It doesn’t mat- call it mellow. ing conflict with the enemy, and within the bu- ‘‘Pat hates it when people use that word,’’ ter who you are, if you do one thing wrong, you get punished. It’s Pat’s way or no way,’’ reaucracy. The American GI forum, which he DeMoss says. Summitt agrees she’s more apt to ask for says Woosley, now coach at Fayetteville’s founded, was originally intended to guide WWI input from DeMoss, Warwick and assistant Lincoln County High School. ‘‘That’s the and WWII veterans through the maze of bu- Al Brown and from her players. ‘‘I’m more way it should be. She’s tough. But I learned reaucracy to obtain their educational and med- flexible today than I was at 27, more toler- from it, the good and the bad.’’ Says Sexton: ‘‘There’s a price to be paid to ical benefits, and it grew into the highly ac- ant. Starting out I guess I was kind of a dic- be a part of that program. You have got to be claimed Hispanic civil rights organization. tator type. I thought I had all the answers.’’ above reproach. It’s a responsibility, a com- There’s no question who’s in charge, but mitment on and off the floor. The seeds of Dr. Garcia's inspiration and Summitt is more comfortable letting players Recruits ask DeMoss ‘‘Can I play for Pat? leadership have sprouted, and they will con- make some decisions. ‘‘I’ve heard her ask the Can I handle Pat?’’ I tell them, ‘‘Two things tinue to grow and succeedÐjust as he players during a time-out, ‘You want to play will keep you out of the doghouse. Work planned. Dr. Garcia was a tremendously de- zone or man-to-man?’ ’’ DeMoss says. ‘‘I hard and be honest,’’ DeMoss says. think she knows now you can laugh and have Says Summitt, ‘‘I think I have very little cent man, and his legacy to us is to treat each fund and still win. Used to, she didn’t think patience with people that are not motivated other decently as human beings. He embodied the two ever could go together.’’ to work hard. It’s hard for me to under- the Golden RuleÐ``Do unto others as you She gets help laughing from practical jok- stand.’’ would have them do unto you.'' There are a ers DeMoss and Warwick. Once, Summitt f was ragging the players about her playing host of people in south Texas who received days. The coach swore she always rebounded THE DEATH OF DR. HECTOR free medical care from him because they sim- and never tossed fancy passes. DeMoss and GARCIA ply couldn't afford to pay him. Warwick showed the team a grainy, black- and-white video of Summitt’s playing days. I will miss him, and I will miss his decencyÐ ‘‘She threw hook passes; she didn’t re- HON. SOLOMON P. ORTIZ I believe all Americans will. I believe the best bound. The whole team had to wait for her to OF TEXAS way for us to remember him is to follow his get down the court,’’ Warwick laughs. ‘‘But IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES example. she took it very well.’’ Friday, July 26, 1996 Summitt can slip in a joke herself. Ten- nessee was to play Louisiana Tech in April Mr. ORTIZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ad- in the 1988 Final Four semifinal. Summitt vise my colleagues of the passing of Dr. Hec-