Dean Smith Quotes About Coaching

Quotes about: Coaching

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Teamwork, Player

• 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

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Coaching, Stuff

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