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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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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
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There are always those times when you're going to be down. It's how you step through it that makes you the person you are.
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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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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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