Quotes from Dean Smith

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

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.

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.

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

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

Play hard. Play smart. Play together.

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

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.

A lion never roars after a kill.

The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

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.

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

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

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

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.

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.

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

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

You can't teach court savvy

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.

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

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.

I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.

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