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Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. Thats how I want you to play. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
First of all, what happens is, when youre good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
I always wanted to teach. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
I hated to lose. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think its tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
I probably shouldnt say this, but I was not much of a book person. I loved to learn, but I learn by doing. I learn from my experiences. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. Its a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but were losing a little bit of that right now. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
I think youre not a human being unless you have doubts and fears. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
I wasnt a great player in college, but I was a very good high school player. It really shaped a lot of what I do as a basketball coach now. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Im fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and weve won a lot. I have some kids who havent failed that much. But when they get to college, theyre going to fail some time. Thats a thing that I can help them the most with. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Im still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Ive been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Ive tried to handle winning well, so that maybe well win again, but Ive also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but youve embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but Ive been able to win. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and thats still what I do: teach. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
My parents didnt really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didnt give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldnt go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Thats another thing, we made up games. We didnt have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldnt skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
Thats what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then thats great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on. - Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
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