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

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
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 also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

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

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.

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