QUOTES by Dean Smith
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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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"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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"You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball."
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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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"Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television."
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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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"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."
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"The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out."
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"There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does"
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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 coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept."
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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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"If you do what we ask you to do, the victories will belong to you, and the losses to me."
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"If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot."
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"I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual."
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"A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment."
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"What do do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it."
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"Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat."
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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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"Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America."
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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."
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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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"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."
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"I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun."
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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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"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."
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