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Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Chicago
Illinois
Michael William Krzyzewski
Coach K
Michael Krzyzewski
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Men
Nba
Ball
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Defense
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The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
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Mutual commitment helps overcome the fear of failure—especially when people are part of a team sharing and achieving goals. It also sets the stage for open dialogue and honest conversation.
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I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back to you, and that’s where a relationship is developed. I don’t make a player, and a player doesn’t make me a coach. We make each other.
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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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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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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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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
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With me and basketball, it became part of me.
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A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
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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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If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.
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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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Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility.
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Don't let a single game break your heart.
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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 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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Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.
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We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.
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The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.
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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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