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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.

~Mike Krzyzewski

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

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Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

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Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

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I'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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Coach

Born: February 13th, 1947

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