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Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
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Michael William Krzyzewski
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Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility.
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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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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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Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.
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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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A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time
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You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.
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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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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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Always get back to your core principles.
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You start developing a championship attitude by, first of all, telling kids that they are really good and that they have the potential to become better.
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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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You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.
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With me and basketball, it became part of me.
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I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.
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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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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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It's not like we have not had close games. We've just been able to win them, and as a result, the reality sometimes doesn't set in that you're weak in certain areas or you're not doing certain things well. ... When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.
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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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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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