Dean Smith Quotes

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

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

You lose games because of turnovers.

I think the way you win championships is step by step and watchful consistency.

Do what you do best, and recruit to your style.

You have to be a determined son of a gun to be successful in this league.

The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

I always wanted my players to take the last shot.

All players need a coach like a letter needs an envelope.

The goal is to improve, to get better, to refine your game every day.

You can never give up, you have to have that fight in you.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender their me-ness for we-ness.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

The best player will play. That’s the way it will always be.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

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

No matter what happens, keep a good attitude and do the right thing.

Dean Smith Quotes part 2

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!

The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

Play hard, play together, play smart.

To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst.

In basketball, the best way to score is to see that no one else has a chance to.

Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

A good team beats with one heart.

Carolina isn’t just a school, it’s a family.

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. You have to stay focused.

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the fence is no longer an option.

I’m not a cheater, I’ve never cheated, and I don’t cheat.

I think the mistake some people make is thinking that you have to believe in yourself before you can take action. Sometimes, you just have to go for it!

It’s about the journey and the process. Be patient with yourself and trust the process.

Take control of your own destiny, or someone else will.

You can have a system and it’s going to be a great system. But if you don’t have great players, the system isn’t worth a lick.

Adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it.

Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.

To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.

Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as a punishment.

Everyone wants to be on a championship team, but no one wants to show up for practice.

In order to achieve greatness, you must first believe in your own ability to do so.

The hard work was the easy part.

The best way to help people reach their potential is to give them their best opportunity to succeed.

If you don’t get too high when things go well, you won’t be too low when they don’t.

It’s not about the shoes, it’s about what you do in them.

Success is not about the destination, it’s about the journey.

Great teams are built through trust, strong work ethic, and a commitment to each other.

Don’t let success go to your head and failure go to your heart.

Don’t count the days, make the days count.