American - Coach | February 13, 1947 -
You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.
Mike Krzyzewski
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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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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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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
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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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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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When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.
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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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The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.
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When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.
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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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