Best of - Mike (Coach K) Krzyzewski: Inspiring Greatness

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🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Coach K, as Mike Krzyzewski is best known, has had more wins than any other men's basketball coach in the NCAA... by a long shot. He's also the proud owner of three Olympic Gold Medals, from his time caching the USA Men’s National Team. Well, Coach K has announced that he is retiring, after four decades with the Duke University Blue Devils. And so we are revisiting this episode, which originally ran in 2015. Coach K's began developing his unbeatable recipe for leadership and inspiration when he was a kid, growing up in a working class part of Chicago. There were no little leagues in his neighborhood, so whenever groups of kids gathered on the basketball courts, he says, “somebody had to organize it, and it was always me." (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2015-2021

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Alice.
0:03.0	Last week when Duke University's coach Mike Shchezhevsky announced that he was retiring,
0:09.0	the New York Times ran a headline,
0:11.0	declaring that the end of the super coach was at hand.
0:16.0	Shchewski, much better known as Coach Kaye is a legend and an inspiration.
0:22.0	He'll coach through the upcoming season. It'll be his
0:26.4	42nd year with Duke. And then he'll leave just as college basketball goes through a massive transition.
0:36.3	College players around the country have been clamoring for changes to the NCAA's rules, and it looks like they'll soon win the right to unionize
0:46.4	and to make bank for the first time.
0:49.8	It's complicated and Coach Kay said last week that those changes are not what's behind his decision.
0:57.0	But either way, college basketball will just not be the same without him in the game. We featured Mike Shachevsky on one of our first episodes back in 2015,
1:09.0	and it feels like the right time to run it again.
1:16.0	Adam Aye, this child is gifted.
1:19.0	And I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
1:22.0	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another
1:27.6	chance.
1:28.6	It all was so clear.
1:29.6	It was just like the picture started to form itself.
1:32.8	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth,
1:37.3	darkness over light, birth over life.
1:40.7	Every day I wake up and decide, today I'm going to love my life. Every day I wake up and decide.
1:43.0	Today I'm going to love my life.
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