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

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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Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
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I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.
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Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
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Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication
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