Famous Quotes

"I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts."

Mike Krzyzewski on Positive

More quotes about Positive

• "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Positive

• "I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other."

  Harvey Fierstein on Positive

• "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

  Willie Nelson on Positive

• "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

  Zig Ziglar on Positive

• "If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

  John Wooden on Positive

More quotes by Mike Krzyzewski

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

• "Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting."

• "In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure."

• "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."

• "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."