Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.

When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

As a team, if you don't have the best season, it doesn't help.

I had some great players, great coaches, the best organization in football.

You know when you have a manager that is always successful, is always in the title race and always playing in the Champions League.

That's when I'm at my best: when I'm surrounded by good players.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.

Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

When you're working with the best, it helps you to be good because then you are focusing on what you have to do.

We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and down, looking at the Heat dancers and all of that stuff. We had to step it up and show them what we're all about.

I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal concern to an institutional enterprise. It would, therefore, be a mark of failure on my part if it were perceived that Ratan Tata epitomises the Group's success. What I have done is establish growth mechanisms, play down individuals and play up the team that has made the companies what they are. I, for one, am not the kind who loves dwelling on the 'I'. If history remembers me at all, I hope it will be for this transformation.

I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.

Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.

I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful.