Dean Smith Quotes
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Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.
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You can't teach court savvy
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You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.
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I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.
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The most important thing is team morale.
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I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.
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The death penalty makes us all murderers.
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You should just do the right thing.
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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.
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Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.
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Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.
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Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me.
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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.
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Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.
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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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Praise behaviour that you want repeated
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Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge.
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Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.
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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.
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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.
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The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.
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Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.
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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.
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I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.
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Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.
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You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.
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A lion never roars after a kill.
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The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.
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There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.
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One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work
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