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“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.”
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Dean Smith
#Inspirational Quotes
#Funny Quotes
#Basketball Quotes
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“Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.”
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Dean Smith
#Basketball Quotes
#Team Quotes
#Mean Quotes
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“What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.”
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Dean Smith
#Inspiring Quotes
#Basketball Quotes
#Sports Quotes
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“Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.”
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Dean Smith
Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.142, Penguin
#Basketball Quotes
#Beautiful Quotes
#Player Quotes
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“You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.”
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Dean Smith
#Proud Quotes
#Should Quotes
#Right Thing Quotes
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“The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.”
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Dean Smith
Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.3, Penguin
#Basketball Quotes
#Caring Quotes
#Important Quotes
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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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Dean Smith
Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.33, Penguin
#Basketball Quotes
#Jobs Quotes
#Commitment Quotes
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“Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.”
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Dean Smith
Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.141, Penguin
#Basketball Quotes
#People Quotes
#Coaching Quotes
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“A lion never roars after a kill.”
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Dean Smith
Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.42, Penguin
#Basketball Quotes
#Lions Quotes
#Basketball Leadership Quotes
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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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Dean Smith
Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.147, Penguin
#Basketball Quotes
#Jobs Quotes
#Team Quotes
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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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Dean Smith
#Basketball Quotes
#Attitude Quotes
#Selfish Quotes
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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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Dean Smith
Source : Dean Smith, John Kilgo, Sally Jenkins (2000). “A Coach's Life: My 40 Years in College Basketball”, p.206, Random House
#Basketball Quotes
#Player Quotes
#Nba Quotes
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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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Dean Smith
Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.240, Penguin
#Basketball Quotes
#Player Quotes
#Practice Quotes
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“There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.”
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Dean Smith
#Sitting Quotes
#Sidelines Quotes
#Contests Quotes
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“The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.”
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Dean Smith
#Discipline Quotes
#Persons Quotes
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“I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.”
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Dean Smith
#Basketball Quotes
#Mean Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
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“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.”
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Dean Smith
#Basketball Quotes
#Real Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
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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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Dean Smith
#Basketball Quotes
#Selfish Quotes
#Player Quotes
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“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.”
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Dean Smith
#Life Quotes
#Motivational Quotes
#Stress Quotes
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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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Dean Smith
#Impact Quotes
#Want Quotes
#Corporations Quotes
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“I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.”
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Dean Smith
#Basketball Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Coaching Quotes
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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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Dean Smith
#Basketball Quotes
#Team Quotes
#School Quotes
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“Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.”
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Dean Smith
#Basketball Quotes
#Teamwork Quotes
#Player Quotes
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“You can't teach court savvy”
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Dean Smith
#Leadership Quotes
#Sports Quotes
#Court Quotes
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