Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.

There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards.

I've played in small markets; I've played in big markets. For me, basketball is inside the arena. It doesn't recognize what market you're in. It's about wins and losses, and that's the way I approach it.

I am a winner - and I like to win - but I cannot think that, if I lose, I did not do a good job, because there are other external factors involved.

It doesn't matter if you start the game: as long as you finish it well and the team wins, that's the main thing.

I don't think we have to score in every game in order to have a good game.

Once the game is decided, everyone looks to score. It's natural.

You're not getting any recognition as a point guard if you ain't winning.

There's no game I come to where I say, 'We can't win this game.' That's important.

You know when you play a good game and you know when you play a bad game.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.

I always used to say to players at half-time, 'Be patient. The last fifteen minutes throw the kitchen sink at them. It's worth a gamble'. You are going to lose the game anyway. There is nothing better than when you get to that last fifteen minutes and you actually win the game late on. The fans are going out of the gates I gave it a try and it worked.

I took Hedo (Turkoglu) in the first game and Rashard (Lewis) hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.

Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game.

At the end of the day, if we don't win that game, we're going home, anyway, so what does it matter. I just wanted to be available, and it ended up to the point where I could help out tonight.

Stats are for losers. I like winning games.

You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

I don't see any point in playing the game if you don't win, do you?