Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

Dean Smith

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

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

Dean Smith

The most important thing is team morale.

Dean Smith

Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge.

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

A lion never roars after a kill.

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dean Smith

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

Dan Bailey

Champions have no off-season.

Elgin Baylor

Not only do I admire Jordan's accomplishments and his phenomenal basketball ability, but also the way he has conducted himself on and off the court. I don't think there will ever be another player to have the same impact on the game of basketball as Michael Jordan.

Elgin Baylor

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

Elgin Baylor

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

Eli Manning

It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

Eli Manning

I don't play basketball for the money. I don't play it for the crowd. When I didn't have a friend, when I was lonely, I always knew I could grab that orange pill and go hoop. I could go and dunk on somebody. If things weren't going right, I could make a basket and feel better.

Eli Manning

Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.