Basketball Quote by Dean Smith Download Open image “I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.” — Dean Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Basketball Basketball coaching Coaching Data Ifs Statistics Thinking Unusual Use
I try not to look too much into statistics. I think that can kind of skew or throw you off from what you are… — Justin Herbert Copy Share Image
You always have to be very, very careful with statistics. It doesn't mean that we negate them completely; we just don't use them to… — Andre Villas-Boas Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things. — Ebbe Skovdahl Copy Share Image
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions. — Federico Pena Copy Share Image
Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will… — Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Copy Share Image
I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics, — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it. — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
“If you do what we ask you to do, the victories will belong to you, and the losses to me.” — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out. — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
The real issue is not if a crossing is put in, but when. It would be negligent on the part of Union Pacific and… — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment. — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone. — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his… — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100% — Masai Ujiri Copy Share Image
I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball. — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
It's similar to basketball: when you go to different gyms and win or lose, you learn something new. So when kids get out of… — Andre Iguodala Copy Share Image
If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach… — Adolph Rupp Copy Share Image
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas… — Darryl Dawkins Copy Share Image
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