Top 64 Quotes About Dean Smith: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Dean Smith

#1. There are certain people in our business that you don't replace - Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzyewski, and you don't replace John Wooden, either.

Steve Alford

#2. 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.

Dean Smith

#3. Learning makes us all uncomfortable.

Dean Wesley Smith

#4. 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.

Dean Smith

#5. English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its stupidity. And new writers buy into that.

Dean Wesley Smith

#6. 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

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

#11. 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.

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

#15. The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

Dean Smith

#16. The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

#21. 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.

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

#24. I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

Dean Wesley Smith

#25. The most important thing is team morale.

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

#27. Play hard. Play smart. Play together.

Dean Smith

#28. And I'm pretty sure that everyone in the Pacific Northwest heard Ryan Dean West shout, YOUSTEPPEDONMYFUCKINGNUTSYOUSONOFABITCH!

Andrew Smith

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

Dean Smith

#30. 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.

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

#33. 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.

Dean Smith

#34. The death penalty makes us all murderers.

Dean Smith

#35. Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

Dean Wesley Smith

#36. I really love Paul Smith. And Chrome Hearts. They make the most beautiful, high-end leather and outerwear and jewelry you've ever seen.

Dean Winters

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

Dean Smith

#38. Praise behaviour that you want repeated

Dean Smith

#39. T'Pol." Archer made his voice sting with command. "You're coming dangerously close to violating a rule of the bridge. Don't nag the captain.

Dean Wesley Smith

#40. 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

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

#44. 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.

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

#49. 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

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

Dean Smith

#51. 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.

Dean Smith

#52. A lion never roars after a kill.

Dean Smith

#53. As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

Red Smith

#54. Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?

Gayle Lynds

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

Dean Smith

#56. Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

Sydney Smith

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

Dean Smith

#58. I love Catherine Maladrino, Angela Dean and Nicole Miller. Catherine Maladrino designs that beautiful, high-class red carpet stuff. Nicole Miller makes beautiful dresses you can wear every day. And when you just want to go and shut it down, you turn to Angela Dean.

Tasha Smith