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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

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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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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Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.
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Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done
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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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Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.
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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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The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.
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I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.
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I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.
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With me and basketball, it became part of me.
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You start developing a championship attitude by, first of all, telling kids that they are really good and that they have the potential to become better.
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If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.
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Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.
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A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.
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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
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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'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.
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Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.
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During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions
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Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.
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