Dean Smith Quotes About Basketball
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Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.
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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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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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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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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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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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What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
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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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Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.
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I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
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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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I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.
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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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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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Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.
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The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.
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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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I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.
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