Mike Krzyzewski Games Quotations

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.

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.

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

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

Don't let a single game break your heart.

Pete Newell told me 'get as much information and learn as much about the game as you can, but use your own personality to teach it.'

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

It's not like we have not had close games. We've just been able to win them, and as a result, the reality sometimes doesn't set in that you're weak in certain areas or you're not doing certain things well. ... When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other