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Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.
Mike Krzyzewski
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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
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Michael William Krzyzewski
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More quotes by Mike Krzyzewski
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.
Mike Krzyzewski
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
Mike Krzyzewski
Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.
Mike Krzyzewski
Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
Mike Krzyzewski
You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.
Mike Krzyzewski
Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
Mike Krzyzewski
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.
Mike Krzyzewski
We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.
Mike Krzyzewski
Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.
Mike Krzyzewski
In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can’t be done. People who live with excuses have things that can’t be done hovering around them all the time.
Mike Krzyzewski
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.
Mike Krzyzewski
Always get back to your core principles.
Mike Krzyzewski
Mutual commitment helps overcome the fear of failure—especially when people are part of a team sharing and achieving goals. It also sets the stage for open dialogue and honest conversation.
Mike Krzyzewski
The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
Mike Krzyzewski
Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
Mike Krzyzewski
I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
Mike Krzyzewski
A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.
Mike Krzyzewski
Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.
Mike Krzyzewski
In our program, the truth is the basis of all we do. There is nothing more important than the truth because there's nothing more powerful than the truth. Consequently, on our team, we always tell each other the truth. We must be honest with one another. There is no other way.
Mike Krzyzewski
I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.
Mike Krzyzewski
