A Coach's Life
by Dean Smith
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Legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith tells the full story of his fabled career, and shares the life lessons taught and learned over forty years of unparalleled success as a coach and mentor. For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina men's basketball program with unsurpassed success- on the court and in shaping young men's lives. In his long-awaited memoir, he reflects on the great games, teams, players, strategies, and rivalries show more that defined his career, and explains the philosophy that guided him. There's a lot more to life than basketball- though some may beg to differ- but there's a lot more to basketball than basketball, and this is a book about basketball filled with wisdom about life. Dean Smith insisted that the fundamentals of good basketball were the fundamentals of character- passion, discipline, focus, selflessness, and responsibility- and he strove to unite his teams in pursuit of those values. To read this book is to understand why Dean Smith changed the lives of the players he coached, from Michael Jordan, who calls him his second father and who never played a single NBA game without wearing a pair of UNC basketball shorts under his uniform, to the last man on the bench of his least talented team. We all wish we had a coach like Dean Smith in our lives, and now we will have that chance. show lessTags
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Dean is the MAN!
The chapter "I May Be Wrong, but" is exactly what I think religion should be all about.
Less about fear and more about love and faith.
The chapter "I May Be Wrong, but" is exactly what I think religion should be all about.
Less about fear and more about love and faith.
Read this book during my senior year at Dordt on a lot of the road trips for Dordt basketball. It was a great inside account of the life and background of an amazing coach. Would recommend to others, but I would rate "Carolina Way" above this one.
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Dean Edwards Smith was born in Emporia, KS in 1931. He attended Topeka High School and graduated from the University of Kansas in 1953. Smith began his basketball coaching career as an assistant coach at Kansas in 1953, moved briefly to Air Force, and then began at UNC in 1958. In 1961, he took over as head coach of UNC and over 36 years show more established an unparalleled record (879-254) as the winningest coach in college basketball history. He has won numerous coaching awards, including 8 ACC Coach of the Year titles. He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1999
- People/Characters
- Dean Smith; Michael Jordan
- Important places
- North Carolina, USA; Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Classifications
- Genres
- Sports and Leisure, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Teen
- DDC/MDS
- 796.323 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Sports Ball sports Ball and net sports Basketball
- LCC
- GV884 .S54 .A33 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports Ball games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
- BISAC
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- 141
- Popularity
- 229,697
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.75)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 2
