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The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.

I don’t think you play for other people’s expectations, you know. You don’t go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don’t become a coach because somebody wants you to.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

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.

It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country’s coach.

If you have talent with teamwork, you’ve got a chance to be a championship team.

Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.

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

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.

The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it’s a whole new team.

Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I’m going to win some time. I’ve never felt myself a loser.

I always wanted to teach.

When I had troubles, I’d go out with basketball – you can do it by yourself, too. So you’d go out and shoot, and you’d fantasize.

It’s always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

First of all, what happens is, when you’re good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.

If you set up an atmosphere of community and trust, it becomes a tradition. Older team members will establish your credibility with newer ones. Even if they don’t like everything about you, they’ll say, ‘He’s trustworthy, committed to us as a team.’

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.

The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

Sometimes it’s not bad to hurt. Sometimes you don’t want things until you get hurt. We got hurt today, let’s see what we do.

I don’t think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.

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.

I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.

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.

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

With me and basketball, it became part of me.

The thing I loved the most – and still love the most about teaching – is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

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.

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first.

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

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

That’s another thing, we made up games. We didn’t have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn’t skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I’ve always looked up to.

It’s funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you’d do. It’s terrific.

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

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.

Leadership is simple: Add value to people everyday.

As teachers and coaches, we must remember that when mere winning is our only goal, we are doomed to disappointment and failure. But when our goal is to try to win, when our focus is on preparation and sacrifice and effort instead of on numbers on a scoreboard then we will never lose.

Don’t let a single game break your heart.

Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name wirtten on it.

I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try.

I’ve been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.

When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory.

My mom gave me unconditional support and unfailing love. You can’t get any better than that. That’s why I’ve never been afraid to lose.

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had.

One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don’t assume.

Don’t worry about losing. Think about winning.

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