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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Chicago
Illinois
Michael William Krzyzewski
Coach K
Michael Krzyzewski
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Consistency

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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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I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
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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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There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable
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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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Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.
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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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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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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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The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
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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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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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In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do
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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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As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission
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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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I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
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When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.
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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
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You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.
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