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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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" When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest. "

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" I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting. "

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" It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are. "

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" When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down. "

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" Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it. "

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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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" Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school. "

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" The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed. "

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

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" Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. "

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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'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with. "

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" I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now. "

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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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" The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. "

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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. "

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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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" I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears. "

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

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

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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. "

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" Leadership is an ever-evolving position. "

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