Mike Krzyzewski

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

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

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

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.

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

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.