Mike Krzyzewski Quotes
When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals
Krzyzewski, Mike, and Donald T. Phillips. Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life. Warner Books, 2000, p. 67.
The squad of Marines to which he was assigned had planned to murder an insurgent who had been detained and released 3 times. When they found he was not at home they went next door and sized an innocent father of 11 children and Bacos watched as the squad leader and one other man shot the victim and planted his body in a hole with explosives so he would look like an insurgent. Bacos felt remorse and pled guilty and testified as to what had happened to the authorities. This quotation shows the down side of “unit cohesion” and the pressure of conform on young men.
Michael William Krzyzewski is a college basketball coach. Since 1980, he has served as the head men's basketball coach at Duke University, where he has led the Blue Devils to five NCAA Division I titles, 12 Final Fours, 15 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament championships, and 12 ACC regular season titles. Among men's college basketball coaches, only UCLA's John Wooden has won more NCAA championships with a total of 10.