RANDOM COACH K THOUGHTS

Below are some random notes I took listening Coach Krzyzewski a few year ago.

"If you put the right things into it, you define your winning moments -- not the scoreboard, parents or fans."

"To be a coach you must learn how to teach...summer camps are the best ways to learn and teach."

"What stops a young player: THINKING."

"To break a barrier, to go pass 22-23 wins to 30, you need youth and talent -- but you need to communicate and talk...talk was going to be a big thing for our success. Therefore we set up a lot of drills and situations to create talk."

"The word 'alert' is a huge word -- cannot be alert without the ability to concentrate.

"Keys for a great practice and a great team:

1. Talk

2. Alert

3. Concentrate

4. Play hard"

"Playing hard must be a habit...you cannot turn it on and off. In building a program, these values are of paramount importance."

"One of our rules is that when we talk to each other it is eye to eye."

"Truth right now! This creates trust -- the foundation of success. Cannot have jealousy and dislike -- these are traits of negative people."

"How do we get humans to be consistent, to give their best, not to get down -- this is us -- this is coaching."

"Adversity...get on a kid for no reason...kick a kid out of practice...want teammates to come to his aid -- how will they react?...creates closeness -- they need one another."