Author: Dean Smith

Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society.

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

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

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

- Dean Smith

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.

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

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.

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

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