Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country’s coach.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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