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

Mike Krzyzewski

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

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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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" The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team. "

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

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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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" 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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" Leadership is an ever-evolving position. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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