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" Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need. "
Mike Krzyzewski
Leader
Know
Group
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" The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team. "
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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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" I always wanted to teach. "
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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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" Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation. "
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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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" Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. "
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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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" It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach. "
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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 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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" To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. "
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" When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest. "
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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. "
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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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" The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed. "
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" There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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