I'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.
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Somebody's got to win and lose, you know I thought (the Heels) deserved it. I don't think they necessarily wanted it more than we did, but in some respects, we made it bigger than it was. Sometimes, you can want things at such a high level that you end up putting pressure on yourself. I thought Carolina played really hard and good defense and we added to it. And we have to learn from that.
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I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.
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Giving back what the game has given you, that's one of the things I want to permeate through the program for the next three years and serve as a basis for the team, ... I hope the players look at it that way, too. You forget how lucky you are to be in a specific situation sometimes. We need to get that feeling going again.
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I really thought we were playing better than them but it wasn't translated onto the scoreboard. We were frustrated and I thought it hurt us on the defensive end of the floor.
Mike Krzyzewski
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.
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