Dean Smith Quotes

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  What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

  Dean Smith

  Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

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

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  Basketball, Beautiful, Player

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.142, Penguin

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

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  Proud, Should, Right Thing

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• The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

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  Basketball, Caring, Important

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.3, Penguin

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• If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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  A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

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  Basketball, Jobs, Commitment

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.33, Penguin

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• Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

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  Basketball, People, Coaching

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.141, Penguin

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• A lion never roars after a kill.

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  Basketball, Lions, Basketball Leadership

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.42, Penguin

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• There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does

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  Basketball, Player, Nba

  Dean Smith, John Kilgo, Sally Jenkins (2000). “A Coach's Life: My 40 Years in College Basketball”, p.206, Random House

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

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  Basketball, Player, Practice

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

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• The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

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  Discipline, Persons

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• The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

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  Basketball, Jobs, Team

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.147, Penguin

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• 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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  Basketball, Attitude, Selfish

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

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  Teamwork, Sports, Play

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• There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

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  Sitting, Sidelines, Contests

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• Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

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  Basketball, Team, Mean

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

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  Basketball, Mean, Thinking

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• Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

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  Impact, Want, Corporations

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• I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

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  Basketball, Real, Thinking

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

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  Basketball, Selfish, Player

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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.

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  Basketball, Sports, Team

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

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  Basketball, Keys, Coaching

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• You should just do the right thing.

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  Should, Right Thing

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• I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

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  Basketball, Thinking, Coaching

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• If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

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  Life, Motivational, Stress

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