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Mike Krzyzewski

"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."

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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."

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"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."

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"Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters."

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"If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win."

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

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

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"Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation."

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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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"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 much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with."

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"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."

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

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