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Are you going to show integrity only when someone is watching you - or are you going to show it all the time?

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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
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Michael William Krzyzewski
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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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You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.
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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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The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
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Sometimes it's not bad to hurt. Sometimes you don't want things until you get hurt. We got hurt today, let's see what we do.
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I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.
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If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.
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