Waiting for Dean Skelos and Malcolm Smith to strip to the waist and duel on State Street is not the way of governing.
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You look down at the other bench and there's Jud Heathcote, or Lute Olson, Mike Krzyzewski, Dean Smith, Bob Knight, all the great coaches we went against ... Keno learned so much from being around the sport.
Sen. (Malcolm) Smith is going to be the leader of the Senate differently than Sen. (Joe) Bruno or even Sen. (Dean) Skelos ... It's a whole new way to operate. It's not just going to be up to Sen. Smith...on what comes to the floor.
There's been carnage through the middle row so that will test us. We've obviously got Dean and George Smith and beyond that our stocks in that area have been battered
It's all the things away from the court. I think when Dean Smith decided to give it up, it wasn't the coaching, it was all the expectations that come, especially when you've been in a place for 26 years and don't say 'no' very often, so that would be the biggest adjustment I think someone would have to make when they come in after me.
Dean Smith is not merely a basketball coach of historic accomplishments ... He is also a man of uncommon integrity and decency.
I learned from Coach [Dean] Smith, you don't always make hard-and-fast rules, you make suggestions
Duke made it very clear that they very much wanted to have me ... The dean of [Harvard's] Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Mike Smith, did not make that as clear.
I know Malcolm Smith, and I'll be meeting with him next week ... I'll also be meeting with Dean and having a conversation with the Democratic Party. They victimized me and trashed me. If that's their campaign, if that's what they'll do with the majority to their fellow Democrats...then we've got some serious issues.