Basketball Quotes by Mike Krzyzewski

Don't worry about losing. Think about winning.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

— Mike Krzyzewski

With me and basketball, it became part of me.

— Mike Krzyzewski

A team is a fist-not five fingers.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

— Mike Krzyzewski

I always wanted to teach.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.

— Mike Krzyzewski

With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.

— Mike Krzyzewski

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

— Mike Krzyzewski

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.

— Mike Krzyzewski

I believe a big part of leadership is about winning the moment.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

— Mike Krzyzewski

I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.

— Mike Krzyzewski

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

— Mike Krzyzewski

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

— Mike Krzyzewski

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist.…

— Mike Krzyzewski

First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you…

— Mike Krzyzewski

In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do

— Mike Krzyzewski

Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in…

— Mike Krzyzewski

When you are speaking to your team after a game, never talk about the kid who was the star of the game.…

— Mike Krzyzewski

I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad…

— Mike Krzyzewski

I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States'…

— Mike Krzyzewski

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those…

— Mike Krzyzewski

When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what…

— Mike Krzyzewski

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and…

— Mike Krzyzewski

For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of…

— Mike Krzyzewski

I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that…

— Mike Krzyzewski

The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.

— Mike Krzyzewski

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

— Mike Krzyzewski

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

— Mike Krzyzewski

I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.

— Mike Krzyzewski

...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.

— Mike Krzyzewski

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

— Mike Krzyzewski

We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.

— Mike Krzyzewski

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

— Mike Krzyzewski

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

— Mike Krzyzewski