Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

To lead is neither to push or pull.

A man who tells you to follow him, will turn his followers into his company. While a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

My manager is definitely a mentor as well as Usher.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

I've been involved with great scripts and so-so leadership, and it's clear to me that leadership is the most compelling factor.

You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.

With a head coach, you make a mistake and learn. With a king, you make a mistake and get your head bitten off.

When you have someone that manages, coaches you, and you follow, and you believe, and you do everything that you can because you believe in that idea in your leader, that stays forever. That is the impact Jose Mourinho had on me.

You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.

I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

I didn't play much under Imranbhai, but he was special.

Nobody has had a bigger influence on me as far as day-to-day preparation than Todd Lickliter. He was a huge, huge, huge influence.

Sir Alex Ferguson has been a massive influence on me.

I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career.

As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.

Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.

Headship is not rulership; it is leadership.

The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.