274 Quotes by Mike Krzyzewski

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

Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.

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.

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.

Throughout the season, I look into my players eyes to gauge feelings, confidence levels, and to establish instant trust.

A 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.

Sometimes it's not bad to hurt. Sometimes you don't want things until you get hurt. We got hurt today, let's see what we do.

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

I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.