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American basketball player and coach, Birth: 13-2-1947 Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
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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

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A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time
Mike Krzyzewski

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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
Mike Krzyzewski

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A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
Mike Krzyzewski

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Only the mediocre are always at their best. If your standards are low, it is easy to meet those standards every single day, every single year. But if your standard is to be the best, there will be days when you fall short of that goal. It is okay to not win every game. The only problem would be if you allow a loss or a failure to change your standards. Keep your standards intact, keep the bar set high, and continue to try your very best every day to meet those standards. If you do that, you can always be proud of the work that you do.
Mike Krzyzewski

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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.
Mike Krzyzewski

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You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other
Mike Krzyzewski

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Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
Mike Krzyzewski

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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.
Mike Krzyzewski

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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

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My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
Mike Krzyzewski

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When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!
Mike Krzyzewski

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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.
Mike Krzyzewski

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I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.
Mike Krzyzewski

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Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication
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There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable
Mike Krzyzewski

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You develop a team to achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. All of us alone are weaker, by far, than if all of us are together.
Mike Krzyzewski

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Never let a person's weakness get in the way of their strength.
Mike Krzyzewski

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To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Mike Krzyzewski

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The only way you're going to grow is to be in difficult situations.
Mike Krzyzewski

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Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player
Mike Krzyzewski

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With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order.
Mike Krzyzewski

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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
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In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved
Mike Krzyzewski

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Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.
Mike Krzyzewski

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People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.
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The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
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In our program, the truth is the basis of all we do. There is nothing more important than the truth because there's nothing more powerful than the truth. Consequently, on our team, we always tell each other the truth. We must be honest with one another. There is no other way.
Mike Krzyzewski

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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

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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.
Mike Krzyzewski

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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.
Mike Krzyzewski

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Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.
Mike Krzyzewski

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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.
Mike Krzyzewski

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If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.
Mike Krzyzewski

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Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one
Mike Krzyzewski

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You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.
Mike Krzyzewski

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Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team
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During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions
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It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.
Mike Krzyzewski

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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.
Mike Krzyzewski

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The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.
Mike Krzyzewski

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The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.
Mike Krzyzewski

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Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
Mike Krzyzewski

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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.
Mike Krzyzewski

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That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.
Mike Krzyzewski

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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.
Mike Krzyzewski

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Don't worry about losing. Think about winning.
Mike Krzyzewski

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Play and practice like you are trying to make the team.
Mike Krzyzewski

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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.
Mike Krzyzewski

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Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated
Mike Krzyzewski