Dean Smith Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Teamwork, Player

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• You can't teach court savvy

  Dean Smith

  Leadership, Sports, Court

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• 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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• Praise behaviour that you want repeated

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Nba, Behaviour

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• The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.

  Dean Smith

  School, Player, Two

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

  Dean Smith

  Teacher, Jobs, School

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• As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

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  Friendship, Trying, Close Friends

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Men, Games

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Coaching, Size

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• The most important thing is team morale.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Coaching, Use

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Player, Guy

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• 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.

  Dean Smith

  Real, Issues, California

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• I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Believe, Sportsmanship

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• 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.

  Dean Smith

  Team, Home, Athlete

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• I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that but I know that's just American society.

  Dean Smith

  Thinking, Records, Counting

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• The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

  Dean Smith

  Senior, Summer, Player

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• The death penalty makes us all murderers.

  Dean Smith

  Death Penalty, Penalties, Murderer

  "Dean Smith: On the Passing of a Death Penalty Abolitionist" by Dave Zirin, www.thenation.com. February 9, 2015.

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Beautiful, Games

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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.

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  Rain, Air, Shining

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• I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.

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  People, North Carolina, Carolina

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

  Dean Smith

  Cutting, Cows, Aviation

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• I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.

  Dean Smith

  Fun, Mean, Assistants

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