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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
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I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back to you, and that’s where a relationship is developed. I don’t make a player, and a player doesn’t make me a coach. We make each other.
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First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.
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Don't let a single game break your heart.
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Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.
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In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.
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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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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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Always get back to your core principles.
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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
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I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.
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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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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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A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.
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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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Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.
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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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The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.
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I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
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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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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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