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Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.
Mike Krzyzewski
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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
Basketball Coach
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Chicago
Illinois
Michael William Krzyzewski
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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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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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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 other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.
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With me and basketball, it became part of me.
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Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.
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First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.
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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 love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
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If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.
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In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.
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You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.
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Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated
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Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
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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.
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The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
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Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.
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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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Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him
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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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