PinTo me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.PinIt takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward.PinDon’t take your culture for granted. There needs to be a constant renewal of values that lead to camaraderie.PinI get a group of people who are talented to commit to excellence and to work together as one. That’s where it starts. Different talents, same commitment.PinEveryone’s ideas should be heard. It doesn’t matter who gets credit. As long as you’re working towards the same mission and shared purpose.PinThe 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.PinLeadership is an ever-evolving position.PinWhen a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team.PinI try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try.PinYou can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.PinDiscipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.PinI think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It’s a process, and failure is part of the process.
19 Mike Krzyzewski Quotes on Basketball and Communication (TEAMWORK)
“Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one.”
Mike Krzyzewski
PinI don’t look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.PinWhen you first assemble a group, it’s not a team right off the bat. It’s only a collection of individuals.PinA 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.PinEffective teamwork begins and ends with communication.PinA leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time.PinA leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.
“People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.”
Mike Krzyzewski
PinEvery leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.PinWe’ve created a jealous-free zone… We look each other in the eye. We tell each other the truth. And we trust each other.PinThroughout the season, I look into my players’ eyes to gauge feelings, confidence levels, and to establish instant trust.PinEverybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.PinIt is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country’s coach.PinGoals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team.
“In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved.”
Mike Krzyzewski
PinThe life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it’s a whole new team.PinA 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.PinEach group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.PinYou don’t just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other.
“I believe God gave us crises for some reason — and it certainly wasn’t for us to say that everything about them is bad. A crisis can be a momentous time for a team to grow — if a leader handles it properly.”
Mike Krzyzewski
PinImagination has a great deal to do with winning.PinChampions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.PinMy hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.PinWhen you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.PinIf what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.PinCourage and confidence are what decision making is all about.PinLeaders show respect for people by giving them time.PinIt’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.PinI’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.PinConfidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.PinYou have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on… Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.PinI had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.PinMaking shots counts, but not as much as the people who make them.PinI define passion as extreme emotion.PinTwo are better than one if two act as one.
“When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!”
Mike Krzyzewski
PinConfrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.PinThe only way you’re going to grow is to be in difficult situations.PinLeaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated.PinA leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.PinI think you’re not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.PinWhen you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory.PinThe person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.PinThroughout my life, my mom has been the person that I’ve always looked up to.PinThe truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.PinI 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.PinI want to be a leader — and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion.
Krzyzewski played basketball under Bob Knight in 1969, during this time, he was also training to become an officer in the army.
He served as an officer in the army from 1969-1974. In 1980, Krzyzewski was made head coach of Duke University‘s basketball team.
From the 1983-1984 season onwards, Krzyzewski led the Duke basketball team to at least 20 victories and a streak of 11 consecutive seasons.
In 1991 and 1992, Krzyzewski led Duke University to its first two national championships.
Aside from his career in coaching college basketball, Krzyzewski also coached the U.S. men’s national team in 2008, 2012, and 2016, earning Olympic gold in the games of those years.
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