Dean Smith Quotes

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  • Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.

  • You can't teach court savvy

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  • You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

  • I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

  • The most important thing is team morale.

  • I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.

    Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.240, Penguin
  • The death penalty makes us all murderers.

    "Dean Smith: On the Passing of a Death Penalty Abolitionist" by Dave Zirin, www.thenation.com. February 9, 2015.
  • You should just do the right thing.

  • I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.

  • Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

    Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.142, Penguin
  • Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

  • Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me.

  • The real issue is not if a crossing is put in, but when. It would be negligent on the part of Union Pacific and the California Public Utilities Commission to not address the problem.

  • Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

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  • The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs. ... It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum.

  • Praise behaviour that you want repeated

  • Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge.

  • Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

  • The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

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  • Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.

  • The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.

  • Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

  • I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

  • I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

  • Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

  • You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

  • A lion never roars after a kill.

    Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.42, Penguin
  • The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

    Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.147, Penguin
  • There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

  • One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work

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Dean Smith

  • Born: February 28, 1931
  • Died: February 7, 2015
  • Occupation: Basketball Coach