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I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#college #duke #fail #failed #fortunate

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#bad habit #bit #daughters #down #envy

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#keep #making #making decisions #many #people

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#even #first #grade #grade school #high

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#bad #channel #growing #growing up #had

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#also #basketball #contribution #examples #failure

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#basically #been #championship #embraced #grail

My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#aunts #big #bunch #chicago #city

Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#away #championship #enjoy #fact #first

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#because #bit #frivolous #go #got