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Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.
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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Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.
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For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in ’88, ’89 and ’90.
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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
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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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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
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A team is a fist-not five fingers.
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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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Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.
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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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Two are better than one if two act as one.
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The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.
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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
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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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Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done
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