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Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Two are better than one if two act as one.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Don't worry about losing. Think about winning.
— Mike Krzyzewski
With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order.
— Mike Krzyzewski
When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals
— Mike Krzyzewski
Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I hated to lose.
— Mike Krzyzewski
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
— Mike Krzyzewski
When I had troubles, I'd go out with basketball - you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.
— Mike Krzyzewski
It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.
— Mike Krzyzewski
A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time
— Mike Krzyzewski
I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player
— Mike Krzyzewski
I believe a big part of leadership is about winning the moment.
— Mike Krzyzewski
You can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Don't let a single game break your heart.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Throughout the season, I look into my players eyes to gauge feelings, confidence levels, and to establish instant trust.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.
— Mike Krzyzewski
You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
— Mike Krzyzewski
It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach.
— Mike Krzyzewski
The only way you're going to grow is to be in difficult situations.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Always get back to your core principles.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Turning down the Lakers was tough, but it is always good to renew your vows to the loves of your life.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Making shots counts, but not as much as the people who make them.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Never let a person's weakness get in the way of their strength.
— Mike Krzyzewski
A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.
— Mike Krzyzewski
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Sometimes it's not bad to hurt. Sometimes you don't want things until you get hurt. We got hurt today, let's see what we do.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated
— Mike Krzyzewski
I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Pete Newell told me 'get as much information and learn as much about the game as you can, but use your own personality to teach it.'
— Mike Krzyzewski
In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do
— Mike Krzyzewski
When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory
— Mike Krzyzewski
I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.
— Mike Krzyzewski
There are always those times when you're going to be down. It's how you step through it that makes you the person you are.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.
— Mike Krzyzewski
You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
— Mike Krzyzewski
You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine.
— Mike Krzyzewski
You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other
— Mike Krzyzewski
Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.
— Mike Krzyzewski
My mom gave me unconditional support and unfailing love. You can't get any better than that. That's why I've never been afraid to lose.
— Mike Krzyzewski
It's simply doing what you're supposed to do as well as you can when you're supposed to do it.
— Mike Krzyzewski
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
— Mike Krzyzewski
The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Play and practice like you are trying to make the team.
— Mike Krzyzewski
If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.
— Mike Krzyzewski
A team is a fist-not five fingers.
— Mike Krzyzewski
When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.
— Mike Krzyzewski
We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong,
— Mike Krzyzewski
Leadership is an ever-evolving position.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I always wanted to teach.
— Mike Krzyzewski
A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.
— Mike Krzyzewski
The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.
— Mike Krzyzewski
My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.
— Mike Krzyzewski
It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.
— Mike Krzyzewski
With me and basketball, it became part of me.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Are you going to show integrity only when someone is watching you - or are you going to show it all the time?
— Mike Krzyzewski
Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field
— Mike Krzyzewski
The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Hate can destroy you or it can fuel you. I knew I had to find a way for it to fuel me." Krzyzewski
— John Feinstein
My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Never delegate. Always empower.
— Mike Krzyzewski
The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him
— Mike Krzyzewski
Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.
— Mike Krzyzewski
You develop a team to achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. All of us alone are weaker, by far, than if all of us are together.
— Mike Krzyzewski
A leader has to show the face his team needs to see.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.
— Mike Krzyzewski
If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow
— Mike Krzyzewski
Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.
— Mike Krzyzewski