My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.
Mike Krzyzewski
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- To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
- Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.
- In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
- I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.
- 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.