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Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.

Mike Krzyzewski

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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Chicago
Illinois
Michael William Krzyzewski
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Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.
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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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Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.
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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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Two are better than one if two act as one.
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When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!
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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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It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.
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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 don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.
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The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.
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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
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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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In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can’t be done. People who live with excuses have things that can’t be done hovering around them all the time.
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Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
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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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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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Are you going to show integrity only when someone is watching you - or are you going to show it all the time?
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In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.
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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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