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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.

Mike Krzyzewski

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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
Basketball Coach
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Chicago
Illinois
Michael William Krzyzewski
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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 person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
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You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.
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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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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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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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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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My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
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You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.
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Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.
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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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Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.
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Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.
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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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