Best 49 quotes of Dean Smith on MyQuotes

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

A lion never roars after a kill.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Praise behaviour that you want repeated

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

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.

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

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

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.

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.

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

The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

The most important thing is team morale.

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.

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.

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

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

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

You can't teach court savvy

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

If you do what we ask you to do, the victories will belong to you, and the losses to me.

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