'Gentleman And Coach' Dean Smith Did What He Believed In

Posted Feb 13, 2015
He worried sometimes that he wanted to win too much, but as I said, the man was refreshingly human. He might have given up smoking, but, says a great friend who played a lot of golf with him, "The S.O.B. never once gave me a 2-foot putt." We talk about a gentleman and a scholar. Well, Dean Smith, he was a gentleman and a coach. (NPR)

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