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Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.

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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
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Michael William Krzyzewski
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Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done
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When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.
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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
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It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.
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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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I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.
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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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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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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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Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
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Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.
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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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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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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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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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The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
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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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I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.
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