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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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Volleyball
Teamwork
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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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I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.
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The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.
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My mom gave me unconditional support and unfailing love. You can't get any better than that. That's why I've never been afraid to lose.
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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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The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.
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A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time
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Pete Newell told me 'get as much information and learn as much about the game as you can, but use your own personality to teach it.'
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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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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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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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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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Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.
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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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Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.
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You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.
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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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When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory
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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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I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try
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