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Always get back to your core principles.

Mike Krzyzewski

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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
Basketball Coach
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Chicago
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Michael William Krzyzewski
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Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name wirtten on it.
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If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.
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Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.
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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
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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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Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
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As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission
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Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him
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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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I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
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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 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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With me and basketball, it became part of me.
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I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.
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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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The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.
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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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