Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

I would never rule out coaching.

Coaching is something I really would do. A lot of people don't think I'm serious about it. I like working with the kids. When you work with the guys one-on-one and get them to understand it's a little bit better. That's the way I was taught by Tim Grgurich. That's how he taught us.

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.

Prandelli is a coach with great experience and he knows how to work with young people also.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

When you're responsible for leading a group of young people, you have to be positive. If you're not, you shouldn't be in your job, should you?

One of the great things about coaching is it's a different challenge every day.

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

Hopefully I'll be a GM one day, or even a coach, teaching the game to the young guys.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

I have coaching friends, and when we get together, we often talk more about what we're doing to get players' attention than we do about the fascinating X's and O's of our sport.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.

One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

If a youngster can come up to me and share his problems or share his experiences or share something that he does off cricket, that can obviously help you build a better relation with one-on-one, and that can help you captain him on the cricket field.