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16 quotes by Dean Smith

Dean Edwards Smith (February 28, 1931 – February 7, 2015) was an American head coach of men's college basketball. Originally from Emporia, Kansas, Smith was called a "coaching legend" by the Basketball Hall of Fame. He is best known for his 36-year coaching tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired with 879 victories, which was the NCAA Division I men's basketball record at that time....
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There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

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

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

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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... →

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

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

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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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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.

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

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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... →

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