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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
Basketball Player
Chicago
Illinois
Michael William Krzyzewski
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In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
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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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Always get back to your core principles.
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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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Don't let a single game break your heart.
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A team is a fist-not five fingers.
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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 has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.
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I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.
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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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Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.
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Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.
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