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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. "

Mike Krzyzewski

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts. "

Mike Krzyzewski

Positive

Bad

" 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. "

" Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach. "

" 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. "

" With me and basketball, it became part of me. "

Mike Krzyzewski

Part

Basketball

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

Positive

Failure

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to. "

" 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. "