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I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.
Mike Krzyzewski
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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
Basketball Coach
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Chicago
Illinois
Michael William Krzyzewski
Coach K
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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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Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility.
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That's why basketball was so good, because I didn't really need you or anyone else to play it. It would be better if we played four-on-four or five-on-five, but I could go out there alone.
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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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Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.
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Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
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In our program, the truth is the basis of all we do. There is nothing more important than the truth because there's nothing more powerful than the truth. Consequently, on our team, we always tell each other the truth. We must be honest with one another. There is no other way.
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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
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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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Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.
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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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I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.
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Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.
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In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
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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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Don't let a single game break your heart.
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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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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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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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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.
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