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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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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
Basketball Coach
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Michael William Krzyzewski
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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.
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If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.
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Don't let a single game break your heart.
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My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
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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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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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When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team
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In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved
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Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him
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As teachers and coaches, we must remember that when mere winning is our only goal, we are doomed to disappointment and failure. But when our goal is to try to win, when our focus is on preparation and sacrifice and effort instead of on numbers on a scoreboard then we will never lose.
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I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
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You start developing a championship attitude by, first of all, telling kids that they are really good and that they have the potential to become better.
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A team is a fist-not five fingers.
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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 team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.
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It’s simply doing what you’re supposed to do as well as you can when you’re supposed to do it.
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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.
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There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable
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