Mike (Coach K) Krzyzewski: Inspiring Greatness

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🗓️ 26 October 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Coach K, as Mike Krzyzewski is best known, has more wins than any other men's basketball coach in the NCAA. He’s placed his team - the Duke University Blue Devils - in five consecutive Final Fours, won five national championships, and is the first coach in the history of NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball to win 1,000 games. He also has three Gold Medals under his belt, as coach of the USA Men’s National Team. In his 30 years with the Blue Devils, Coach K has proven he has a winning recipe for leadership and inspiration, and that starts, as he says in this episode, with relationships. It’s a talent he’s honed since he was a kid, growing up in a working class part of Chicago, where there were no little leagues. Whenever groups of kids gathered on the basketball courts in his neighborhood, he says: “Somebody had to organize it, and it was always me." Music "Going Higher" from Bensound.com (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2015

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0:00.0	Madame, this child is gifted.
0:05.0	And I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
0:08.6	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity,
0:12.3	and you don't take it, you may never have another job.
0:15.0	It all was so clear. It was just like the picture started to form itself.
0:19.6	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light,
0:26.1	birth over life.
0:27.5	Every day I wake up and decide.
0:30.2	Today I'm going to love my life. Decide.
0:34.0	My advice is if they don't break your leg once when you go in that place stay out of there.
0:39.0	And then along come these differential experiences that you don't look for, you don't plan for,
0:46.3	but boy you better not miss them.
0:49.7	This is what it, a podcast about passion, vision, and perseverance.
0:58.0	I'm Alice Winkler.
0:59.7	On each episode of What It Takes, we play you a conversation from the Academy of Achievement's
1:05.0	vault, a conversation with someone phenomenal, someone who's overcome
1:09.7	obstacles to make history, someone with stories to tell, whether scientists,
1:15.0	musician, world leader, or sports legend.
1:18.0	On this episode, that someone is Mike Shachevsky or as he is more affectionately
1:25.2	known coach Kaye and yes Shachev's he starts with a K for those of you who wouldn't
1:31.2	know a free throw if it hit you in the end zone.
1:34.0	B
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