Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

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.
Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball, Together, Play

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.
Mike Krzyzewski

Life, Love, Success

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

Beauty, Become, Acting

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

Mom, Life, Person

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, School

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
Mike Krzyzewski

Life, Mom, Person

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

Ego, Individual, Though

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

Truth, Decisions, Keep

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.
Mike Krzyzewski

Different, Leader, 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.
Mike Krzyzewski

Teacher, Love, Group

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.
Mike Krzyzewski

Crisis, Winning, Two

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.
Mike Krzyzewski

Respect, Lie, Give

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

Life, Team, Whole

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

Win, Everybody, Fail

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.
Mike Krzyzewski

Time, Good, Happens

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

Failure, Teacher, Parents

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.
Mike Krzyzewski

Time, Help, Kids

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.
Mike Krzyzewski

Time, Great, Wife

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.
Mike Krzyzewski

Yourself, Said, Honor

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.
Mike Krzyzewski

Parents, Help, Youngsters

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

High, Knew, Level

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.
Mike Krzyzewski

Time, Stupid, Trying

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.
Mike Krzyzewski

Listen, Moments

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

School, Basketball, Year

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

Experience, Fun, Able

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Coach

Born: February 13, 1947

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