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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
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Michael William Krzyzewski
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When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.
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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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When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
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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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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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I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.
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There are always those times when you're going to be down. It's how you step through it that makes you the person you are.
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I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.
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I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.
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As teachers and coaches, we must remember that when mere winning is our only goal, we are doomed to disappointment and failure. But when our goal is to try to win, when our focus is on preparation and sacrifice and effort instead of on numbers on a scoreboard then we will never lose.
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A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.
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Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.
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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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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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