Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
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I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
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With me and basketball, it became part of me.
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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
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It’s simply doing what you’re supposed to do as well as you can when you’re supposed to do it.
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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.
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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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Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name wirtten on it.
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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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When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.
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Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.
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I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
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The only way you're going to grow is to be in difficult situations.
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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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Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
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If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.
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I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.
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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
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Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.
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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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Visualize a wagon wheel as a complete team. A leader might be the hub of the wheel at the center. Now suppose the spokes are the connecting relationships the leader is building with people on the outer rim of the wheel. If the hub is removed, then the entire wheel collapses. In a situation like that, if a team loses the leader, the entire team collapses.
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Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.
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Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication
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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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You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.
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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.
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The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.
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One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don't assume.
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Don't let a single game break your heart.
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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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