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A country store on a dirt road near Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939
A country store on a dirt road near Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939. Dorothea Lange. Library of Congress, public domain.
I enjoy coaching basketball, but it's the out-of-season things that I haven't been able to handle very well.... Every April I feel like, 'Oh gosh,' and then I get charged up again.... Watching Larry Brown out on the court with all his enthusiasm made me say, 'I used to be like that.' But I can't give this team that enthusiasm.

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Retirement press conference, Smith Center, Chapel Hill, 9 October 1997; reported in The Chronicle (Duke University), October 1997

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“I enjoy coaching basketball, but it's the out-of-season thin…” Dean Smith. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-AB949F31A6. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/ab949f31a6

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