Krzyzewski Basketball Quotes
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Krzyzewski Basketball Quotes & Sayings
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Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.
— 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
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
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
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
Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.
— Mike Krzyzewski
We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong,
— 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
Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.
— Mike Krzyzewski
In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do
— Mike Krzyzewski
I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.
— 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 don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other
— Mike Krzyzewski
Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
— Mike Krzyzewski
A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.
— 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
Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field
— Mike Krzyzewski
If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Play and practice like you are trying to make the team.
— Mike Krzyzewski
The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.
— Mike Krzyzewski
With me and basketball, it became part of me.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him
— Mike Krzyzewski
If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow
— Mike Krzyzewski
A team is a fist-not five fingers.
— Mike Krzyzewski