274 Quotes by Mike Krzyzewski

I never want to lead a team that is not allowed the freedom to pursue what's in their hearts. If you want your team to be fully committed, then you'd better be fully committed

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

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.

It’s simply doing what you’re supposed to do as well as you can when you’re supposed to do it.

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.

With me and basketball, it became part of me.

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow

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.

Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player