Mike Krzyzewski Quotes About Sports

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

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Basketball

• Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Journey

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.52, Hachette UK

• The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Baloncesto, Deportes, Equipo

• 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

  Sports, Teacher, Thinking

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

• 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

  Basketball, Sports, Lying

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievememnt Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Mom, Sports, Mother

  "Mike Krzyzewski on The American Dream". www.achievement.org.

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

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Team, Years

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

• 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.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Baloncesto, Deportes, Ganar

  "Duke of the Court". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

• 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

  Basketball, Sports, People

  "Mike Krzyzewski on Vision". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

• A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Baloncesto, Deportes, Voleibol

  Mike Krzyzewski, Jamie K. Spatola (2006). “Beyond Basketball: Coach K's Keywords for Success”, p.32, Hachette UK

• 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, Basketball, Sports

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

• Hay niños que no quieren hacer algo porque temen parecer estúpidos ante sus compañeros. Llega un momento en que empiezan a protegerse, en vez de extenderse. Quiero asegurarme de que siempre intenten superarse.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Stupid, Kids

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

• 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

  Sports, Daughter, Mother

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

• When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Deportes, Béisbol, Fútbol

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

• Cuando fui al instituto, un colegio católico solo para chicos, hice una prueba de fútbol y no lo conseguí. Fue la primera vez, atléticamente, que me derribaron.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Deportes, Fútbol, Escuela

• Si ganas un Campeonato Nacional, o ganas dos, la gente piensa que no sólo has visto el Santo Grial, sino que lo has abrazado. Básicamente, hago lo que hace mucha gente, pero he sido capaz de ganar.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Deporte, Ganar, Pensar

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

• 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.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Cousin, Uncles

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

• El baloncesto no era mi deporte principal en primaria, ni siquiera en el primer año de secundaria.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, School

• 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.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Passion, Winning

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

• Cuando era pequeño tenía muy mal genio. El deporte me ayudó a canalizar ese mal genio en actos más positivos.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Growing Up, Squash

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

• 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.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Play, Parent

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

• 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.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Teacher

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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