“A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can ge...” — Mike Krzyzewski Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Syracuse, New York, is like Hawaii for eight months of the year. The other four months, I don't care about the weather because we're playing basketball.”

“I was always a hard working basketball player.”

“I always felt like I needed to play basketball.”