Mike Krzyzewski Quotes - Page 7

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• 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

  Team, Commitment, Goal

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• Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Loss, Feel Good, Victory

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interveiw, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Football, Hockey, Games

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Teacher

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Strong, Believe, Hard Work

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.178, Hachette UK

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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.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the professional level to the colleges and high schools. Everyone was considered.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, School, College

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• Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Loss, Winning, Player

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interveiw, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Heart

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Country, Honor, Coaches

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• My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Cousin, Uncles

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Throughout the season, I look into my players eyes to gauge feelings, confidence levels, and to establish instant trust.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Eye, Player, Feelings

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• When I had troubles, I'd go out - with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Trouble, Can Do

  "Duke of the Court". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Games, Play

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• That's why basketball was so good, because I didn't really need you or anyone else to play it. It would be better if we played four-on-four or five-on-five, but I could go out there alone.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Play, Would Be

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Player, Progress, Attention

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• Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Ego, Want

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• Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Successful, Giving

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.26, Hachette UK

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