Dean Smith Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• 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.

  Dean Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Beautiful, Player

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

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, People, Coaching

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

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Jobs, Commitment

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

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Attitude, Selfish

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Player, Practice

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

• A lion never roars after a kill.

  Dean Smith

  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

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, Mean

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

  Dean Smith

  Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

• 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.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, School

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Men, Games

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Selfish, Player

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Jobs, Team

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

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Teamwork, Player

• The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

• I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Coaching, Size

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Thinking, Coaching

• The most important thing is team morale.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Keys, Coaching

• Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Coaching, Use

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Player, Guy

• 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.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Sports, Team

• 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.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Real, Thinking

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Mean, Thinking

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