Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I'm in that day.

Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we're running it.

I think all coaches have their own way of doing things.

Every coach has his way of working.

With each individual, everybody takes instructions in a different way.

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

I'm obviously not going to give you everything about my whole life, but as far as my personality, you see me all the time from watching the games.

I cannot teach anybody how to cook. All I can do is show them, share methods with them.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

I discovered early on that the player who learned the fundamentals of basketball is going to have a much better chance of succeeding and rising through the levels of competition than the player who was content to do things his own way. A player should be interested in learning why things are done a certain way. The reasons behind the teaching often go a long way to helping develop the skill.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.

The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.

Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.