Mike Krzyzewski quote: "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."

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

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, an...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish comm...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

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

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I go...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their ...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

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

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Gra...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go t...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

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

Things happen in a game, and he took responsibility for it. I hope ... he's not punished. ... That k...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

It's not like we have not had close games. We've just been able to win them, and as a result, the re...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

We were not worthy of our jerseys, our Duke jerseys, in the first half.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

J.J. was sensational once we found him. We did not do a good job of finding him at first, but once w...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supp...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

You start getting a little bit desperate. And when you're desperate and talented, usually something ...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

We've been a really good defensive team, and Saturday we were not. We didn't play with a passion on ...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

Giving back what the game has given you, that's one of the things I want to permeate through the pro...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

Our team showed spirit after we lost the lead. It was the kind of spirit that I thought we had, but ...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

J.J. came out today and got 35 points in a very workmanlike way. Maryland did a really good job on h...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

After winning a big game against N.C. State in the conference, we were not emotionally up to par to ...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

We approach Wake as a very good basketball team. There have been more close games in the league this...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

I thought our defense in the second half was outstanding. That is the best we have played in a coupl...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

I don't think there's anything that can prepare them, really. You've got to be there. You've got to ...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

They came back and when we lost the lead, I think we showed the spirit that I've sensed in this team...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

I thought our guys stopped looking at the basket. That puts a lot of pressure on J.J.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

That step-back three was not bad.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

Thornton from Florida State was absolutely sensational. He's been terrific all season, but he played...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

J.J. had one of the great performances here. Are you kidding me? I'm not sure how many times he hit ...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

We feel like we won a really tough basketball game against an outstanding team.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

We had four or five minutes at the end of the first half and the start of the second half that was a...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

We went into him more today down the stretch than we've done ever.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

It came as a surprise to me.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

When we don't match another team's intensity — that doesn't happen very often — then all of a su...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

The signing of the floor was not about Maryland or any particular opponent. It's about us. It's abou...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

I think both teams played excellent defense. You can't take everything away from them. We tried to l...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

Did I throw it across?
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

I've never seen that at Duke where you have 13 shots and get 40 points. It was an incredible perform...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

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

We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong,
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with a...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

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

He improvised, and it was all him. It was huge.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

So many teams would have wilted.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

It's an unfortunate situation, but we'll let the powers that be handle it -- but in front of everybo...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

An official cannot allow that to happen. That doesn't mean an official or a referee would not listen...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and woul...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

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

He looked sometimes like he was our coolest guy out there.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

We had more interaction in practices before coming here and J.J. wanted other guys to take shots.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

He's a kid that can be silent for a while and then explode. I'm just glad there wasn't that much tim...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do tha...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

Obviously, we are ecstatic about winning the game. Boston College is truly an amazing team. To win t...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

I really respect Boston College. They're veterans. They play a unique system. They're tough competit...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

Our team has never made any excuses about injuries and depth or anything like that. They've really s...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

The initial prognosis is a hairline fracture.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

It's not as much physical, I think, as it is emotional. You can get emotionally drained, but you can...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

Greg showed a great deal of toughness and resolve playing through the injury as a freshman. The surg...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

He's going to be a terrific player, and he has done a great job. I've been harder on Greg than any k...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and fai...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

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

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then tak...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would p...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

We're spoiled by his defense. He doesn't leap tall buildings with a single bound, but he got seven b...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

We went to like a match-up zone to stop their penetration. That's the first time we've played that f...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

They're big and powerful, and they're veterans. They pound the boards. And they do a bunch of differ...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

I don't take him for granted. When you have a special player, there's only so much you can teach him...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

We won (a segment of the game) and they won, and we won and they won. And we won a little bit more.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

J.J., he didn't touch the ball for a while. Once we started finding him ....
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

In this environment, with that pressure, he had a great floor game. We needed Greg to be that court ...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

At the time that they were shown, the Brillo Boxes were underappreciated. It's only now, with th...
MIKE BIDLO

I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and t...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill.
MIKE PENCE

If you try to do your best there is no failure.
MIKE FARRELL

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.
MIKE WHITE

We are ramping up security in the United States but also looking at visa applicants, visa waiver app...
MIKE MCCAUL

For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.
MIKE D

Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury...
MIKE D

We never set out to be superstars.
MIKE D

When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
MIKE D

We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.
MIKE D

We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.
MIKE D

L.A. is a town built upon segregated, individual fantasies.
MIKE D

Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to pres...
MIKE D

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint...
MIKE D

Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
MIKE D

I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.
MIKE D

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-found...
MIKE D

In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what w...
MIKE D

That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ...
MIKE D

We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what...
MIKE D

I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a...
MIKE D

Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all t...
MIKE D

I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.
MIKE D

Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
MIKE D

Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen a...
MIKE D

Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subject...
MIKE D

I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. H...
MIKE D

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.
MIKE D

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
MIKE D

Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.
MIKE BARNICLE

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationship...
MIKE MILLS

If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ou...
MIKE PENCE

One day before I die, I will finally understand why liberals, especially Jewish liberals, fail to fu...
MIKE GALLAGHER

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.
MIKE QUIGLEY

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
MIKE TYSON

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
MIKE TYSON

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash...
MIKE TYSON

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.
MIKE TYSON

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.
MIKE TYSON

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
MIKE TYSON

Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
MIKE TYSON

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
MIKE TYSON

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
MIKE TYSON

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing thi...
MIKE TYSON

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
MIKE TYSON

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hi...
MIKE TYSON

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
MIKE TYSON

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
MIKE TYSON

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from on...
MIKE TYSON

Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.
MIKE TYSON

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
MIKE TYSON

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
MIKE TYSON

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his he...
MIKE TYSON

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
MIKE MYERS

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write so...
MIKE STOLLER

I love Broadway shows.
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish ...
MIKE DAVIDSON

We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web brow...
MIKE DAVIDSON

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we c...
MIKE ROGERS

I have a little pocket Bible that I have with me all the time in my briefcase, and so usually in the...
MIKE HUCKABEE

If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy,...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

You can have the best technology, but you if have a corrupted, radicalized, bribed official that has...
MIKE MCCAUL

You can have the best technology, but if you have an inside job of a worker that has access to the p...
MIKE MCCAUL

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.
MIKE NORTON

The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing witho...
MIKE NORTON

By sabotaging logic, the common frame of reference, and the common language, we have removed a "safe...
MIKE KLEPPER

The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don...
MIKE NICHOLS

We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, ...
MIKE CURB

In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and...
MIKE WALLACE

In my home state of Indiana, we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced bud...
MIKE PENCE

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the maj...
MIKE PENCE

I'm still very bullish on emerging markets. There's an emerging middle class. They're a ...
MIKE DUKE

Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.
MIKE POMPEO

To the degree that we can demonstrate support for the Ukrainian government, we can change Putin'...
MIKE POMPEO

Honest to goodness, Brian Campbell, he was holding the Cup, and there was no one around for a minute...
MIKE QUIGLEY

Negative campaigning is wrong.
MIKE PENCE

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turnin...
MIKE CURB

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on milita...
MIKE POMPEO

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tol...
MIKE NICHOLS

Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and oran...
MIKE JUDGE

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when...
MIKE PENCE

Remember, the Boston bombers were Chechen rebels.
MIKE MCCAUL

If a natural disaster like a flock of birds or a bolt of lightning causes a plane's engines to f...
MIKE GALLAGHER

Cardinal Raymond Burke is a 66-year-old guy who lives in Rome, dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and tal...
MIKE BARNICLE

Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sicke...
MIKE MYERS

Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.
MIKE GILL

I've loved traveling around the country and meeting people at book signings.
MIKE GALLAGHER

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive rela...
MIKE MILLS

Boldness isn't something you're born with; you either choose it or you don't.
MIKE YACONELLI

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me f...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.
MIKE D

The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a none...
MIKE KLEPPER

Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.

Lucif...
MIKE CAREY

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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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 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.

Mike Krzyzewski

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