Mike Krzyzewski

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.