Dean Smith famous quotes

03-22-2025

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

#Basketball #Beautiful #Player
You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.
-- Dean Smith

#Proud #Should #Right Thing
The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.
-- Dean Smith

#Basketball #Caring #Important
A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.
-- Dean Smith

#Basketball #Jobs #Commitment
Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.
-- Dean Smith

#Basketball #People #Coaching
A lion never roars after a kill.
-- Dean Smith

#Basketball #Lions #Basketball Leadership
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
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
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
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
There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.
-- Dean Smith

#Sitting #Sidelines #Contests
The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.
-- Dean Smith

#Discipline #Persons
I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.
-- Dean Smith

#Basketball #Mean #Thinking
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
You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.
-- Dean Smith

#Basketball #Selfish #Player
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
-- Dean Smith

#Life #Motivational #Stress
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.
-- Dean Smith

#Impact #Want #Corporations
I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.
-- Dean Smith

#Basketball #Thinking #Coaching
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
Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.
-- Dean Smith

#Basketball #Teamwork #Player
You can't teach court savvy
-- Dean Smith

#Leadership #Sports #Court

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