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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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"Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it."

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

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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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"My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach."

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"Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need."

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