"You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it."
"You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball."
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Source: Dean Smith, John Kilgo, Sally Jenkins (2000). “A Coach's Life: My 40 Years in College Basketball”, p.206, Random House
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