Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

Games give you a chance to excel.

You always want to play with the best.

I like every competition I can play.

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well.

I like competing against the very best.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

It's always fun to compete against the best.

If you want to be one of the best players, everything is hard.

I love playing; I love playing good, and it's fun to be up around the top and having a chance.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Right now my biggest thing is to improve my all-around game... If you don't win, something's wrong. Winning takes care of everything, so our biggest thing is winning.

Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

I always wanted to play against the best.

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

In games, we know who has won... You get the reinforcement for having played well.

Once I serve well, my whole game goes up.

If you want to be in the top teams, you know you have competition in your place.

All I want to do is play. I love the game. I want to show everyone what I can do.

I think that is when guys are at their best: when you put pressure and have something to work towards and have something to compare yourself to or try to best them, it really does make you better.