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" Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school. "
Mike Krzyzewski
School
Year
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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" Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one. "
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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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" You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel. "
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" I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears. "
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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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" 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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" When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest. "
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" The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. "
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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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High School
" My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach. "
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School
" The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness. "
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" Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. "
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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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Yourself
You
" 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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Free
Missed
" Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need. "
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Group
" 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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" 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. "
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Parents
Chicago
City
" I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit. "
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Think
Habit
" 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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Tough
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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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" Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing. "
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Fail
Responsibility
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" Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to. "
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" It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach. "
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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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Life
" 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've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it. "
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