274 Quotes by Mike Krzyzewski

Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I’m going to win some time. I’ve never felt myself a loser.

If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment’s notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that’s still what I do: teach.

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.

Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there’s always a later.

Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him.

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.

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

It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward.