Dean Smith Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

You should just do the right thing.

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

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 truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

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.

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

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot.

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.

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

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

Play hard. Play smart. Play together.

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

Praise behaviour that you want repeated

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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