“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”
"There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does"
- Dean Smith
Inspiration
"Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat"
- Dean Smith
Teamwork
"What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it"
- Dean Smith
Learning from Mistakes
"What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it."
- Dean Smith
Learning from Mistakes
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
- Leonardo DaVinci
Inspiration
"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
- Socrates
Inspiration
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."
- Wilbur Wright
Inspiration
"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."
- Charles A. Lindbergh
Inspiration
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspiration