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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

Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name wirtten on it. — 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

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable. — 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

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel. — 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

The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful. — Mike Krzyzewski

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team. — 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

Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team — 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

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

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school. — 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

Making shots counts, but not as much as the people who make them. — Mike Krzyzewski

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments. — 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

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts. — 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

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to. — 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

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other — 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

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters. — Mike Krzyzewski

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. — 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

Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on. — Mike Krzyzewski

You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position. — Mike Krzyzewski

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing. — 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

I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them. — Mike Krzyzewski

As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission — Mike Krzyzewski

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears. — 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

When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory — 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

It's simply doing what you're supposed to do as well as you can when you're supposed to do it. — 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

A team is a fist-not five fingers. — 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

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting. — Mike Krzyzewski

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. — Mike Krzyzewski

We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong, — Mike Krzyzewski

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance. — 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

We travel in Duke stuff ... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat. — 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

I always wanted to teach. — Mike Krzyzewski

Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later. — Mike Krzyzewski

Never delegate. Always empower. — 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

Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own. — 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

Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence. — 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

Leadership is an ever-evolving position. — Mike Krzyzewski

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

With me and basketball, it became part of me. — 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