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" Leadership is an ever-evolving position. "
Mike Krzyzewski
Leadership
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. "
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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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Commitment
Life
" 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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Always
Free
Missed
" 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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Identity
First
Good
" 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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Ambition
High School
School
" Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing. "
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Fail
Responsibility
" 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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Doing
Basketball
Teach
" The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. "
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Decisions
Keep
People
" When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance. "
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Poor
You
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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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Winning
Failure
Win
" You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel. "
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Which
Feel
You
" To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. "
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Me
Selfless
Teamwork
" Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need. "
Mike Krzyzewski
Leader
Know
Group
" Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable. "
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Want
Collective
Ego
" 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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Love
Music
Parents
" 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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Loved
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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
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City
" 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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You
" 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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" With me and basketball, it became part of me. "
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Part
Basketball
Me
" 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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Think
" I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts. "
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Positive
Bad
Me
" It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach. "
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His
Country
Coach
" 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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Success
Life
Family
" Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting. "
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