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Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
Mike Krzyzewski
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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
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Michael William Krzyzewski
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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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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.
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When you are speaking to your team after a game, never talk about the kid who was the star of the game. Talk about what your other players did to help the team win. Be sure to spread the wealth... Then have individual meetings with one to three players to praise and reinforce. Make sure you touch them.
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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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The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.
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When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory
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