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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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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
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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Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.
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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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In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.
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Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.
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When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!
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For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in ’88, ’89 and ’90.
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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 have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
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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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Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
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Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.
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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
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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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Two are better than one if two act as one.
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You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.
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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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My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
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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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Always get back to your core principles.
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