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As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission
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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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 had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
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I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.
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The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.
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I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
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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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My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.
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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 life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.
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When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
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I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.
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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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Always get back to your core principles.
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I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.
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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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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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Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.
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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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