Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

Why not simply work better and harder at what you've got?

I try everyday to give it my 110%.

When you get that tired, it becomes really challenging to keep bringing your best foot forward.

You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.

Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to the limit of your abilities. When it is over, you will have earned the respect of your opponents, your coaches, and yourself.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do

There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.

Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.

What did you try hard at today?

Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.

When I was 17, I made the decision to have a good attitude. I was a junior in high school; the coach said I was going to be the captain of my basketball team. I thought – that surprised me because I wasn’t the best player. John Thomas was better than me, and I was probably second or third best player. And I kept thinking, “Why am I going to be the captain?” I think everybody else was thinking that too. And the coach then answered, “The reason John is going to be the captain is he has the best attitude on the team. He encourages others, he believes we can win, he never gives up.”

Hustle makes up for many a mistake.