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Mike Krzyzewski Inspirational Quotes (100)

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That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.
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The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
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I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
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Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.
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We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.
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The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.
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Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication
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As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission
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I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've 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.
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During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions
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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 didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
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Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.
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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
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A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.
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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.
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In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can’t be done. People who live with excuses have things that can’t be done hovering around them all the time.
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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.
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Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.
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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.
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Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.
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Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility.
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Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.
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It's not like we have not had close games. We've just been able to win them, and as a result, the reality sometimes doesn't set in that you're weak in certain areas or you're not doing certain things well. ... When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.
Mike Krzyzewski
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