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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.
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
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Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.
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You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.
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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.
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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
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Sometimes it's not bad to hurt. Sometimes you don't want things until you get hurt. We got hurt today, let's see what we 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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