Dean Smith Team Quotations

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

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.

What he wants to show more than anything else is the fact that they won the game. I think he's really excited about being part of a real good team like the Nets are this year.

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

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.

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.

The most important thing is team morale.

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

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