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My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

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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Always get back to your core principles.
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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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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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In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved
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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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When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.
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When I had troubles, I'd go out - with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.
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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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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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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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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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The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
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A team is a fist-not five fingers.
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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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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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I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.
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Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
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Sometimes it's not bad to hurt. Sometimes you don't want things until you get hurt. We got hurt today, let's see what we do.
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As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission
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Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.
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