Coach Krzyzewski Quotes

#1. Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.

Mike Krzyzewski

#2. 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

#3. It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach.

Mike Krzyzewski

#4. For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.

John Hudson Tiner

#5. In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

Mike Krzyzewski

#6. When will man learn what was taught to him of old, that faith is the only plank wherewith he can float upon this sea and that his miserable works avail him nothing.

H. Rider Haggard

#7. Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.

Mike Krzyzewski

#8. It's time for us all to step up. We've been extremely successful, but to be honest it's a reality check for everybody.

Darren Campbell

#9. I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

Mike Krzyzewski

#10. 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 approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in '88, '89 and '90.

Mike Krzyzewski

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

Mike Krzyzewski

#12. In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.

Mike Krzyzewski

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

Mike Krzyzewski

#14. I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

Mike Krzyzewski

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

Mike Krzyzewski

#16. I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

Matthew Specktor

#17. He assumed his stillness like a shield, impervious and impenetrable; she wondered if it hid a total stranger or someone as familiar as to her as his name.

Patricia A. McKillip

#18. I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back to you, and that's where a relationship is developed. I don't make a player, and a player doesn't make me a coach. We make each other.

Mike Krzyzewski