I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
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I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.Mike Krzyzewski
We can put up a lot of points, but we can't hang our hats on that. That's why we've been tested these last couple weeks. How good are we going to be on the defensive end of the court, whether we hit or not We were tested with that today.
Mike Krzyzewski
It wasn't just that there weren't any open shots, there weren't any open passes. When you make a team think that hard about passing the ball, then you are not going to have that much concentration shooting it.
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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.
Mike Krzyzewski
We've been a really good defensive team, and Saturday we were not. We didn't play with a passion on the defensive end. ... It wasn't an X and O thing on Saturday it was a breakdown of our communication.
Mike Krzyzewski
This is the first team we played all year that could really block shots like that. Their ability to block shots made us change some shots inside. And I don't know if we ever adjusted to that.
Mike Krzyzewski
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