Dean Smith Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Dean Smith:

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.
~Dean Smith


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#e67553b1

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.
~Dean Smith


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#0708bfa3

I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.
~Dean Smith


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#54236ba9

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#b2bf03aa

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.
~Dean Smith


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#519e4501

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#3035e988

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#50311491

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.
~Dean Smith


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#47a60853

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#39cd3693

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#d7dc3ac5

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#fcf09514

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#19f30238

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#263ebff6

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#73cea23f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#97111e34

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.
~Dean Smith


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dean-smith-quotes/#740d90e6

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