Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get to confident.

If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure.

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.

Stop thinking of failing.

I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

I have never feared failure.

Whether I'm 0-for-10 or 10-for-10, every time I walk to the plate I believe I'm going to hit a missile.

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is debilitating. Don't let that happen to you. At Deutsch we go into every pitch assuming we are the Yankees. It's amazing what happens when you go into a room of smart, hungry people and say, "Failure is not an option." People are galvanized.

Sometimes you lose - perhaps because you play against the very best, or because surprises happen - but if there is organizational confidence, you bounce back from losses and convert them to successes.

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'.

Everybody loves winning, but we should not linger on the difference between winning and losing... But Is losing failing?

Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!'

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.