With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order.
Mike KrzyzewskiYou start developing a championship attitude by, first of all, telling kids that they are really good and that they have the potential to become better.
Mike KrzyzewskiI'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 KrzyzewskiWhen I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.
Mike Krzyzewski