Mike Krzyzewski | Academy of Achievement

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Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football. We understood that as kids, so when we congregated at a school yard, if you had six people, or ten or 20, somebody had to organize it, and it was always me." Growing up in a working class neighborhood in Chicago, Mike Krzyzewski learned to rely on himself to organize the games he wanted to play. When he failed to make his high school football team, he turned to basketball and became a local star. At that time, he hoped for nothing more than to teach high school and coach basketball. A recruiter from the U.S. Military Academy changed all that. At West Point and in the United States Army, Krzyzewski began playing and coaching at a higher level than he had thought possible. Today, he is the winningest coach in the NCAA. As head coach of Duke University's Blue Devils, he has placed his team in five consecutive Final Fours and won five national championships. In 2015, he became the first coach in the history of NCAA Division 1 men's basketball to win 1,000 games. While his teams have boasted such star players as Grant Hill, Christian Laettner and Shane Battier, the sustained success of the Duke program must be credited to Coach Krzyzewski's long-term strategy. While other schools may be willing to sacrifice their academic criteria for the sake of a winning team, "Coach K" holds his players to the highest standards on and off the court. 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We understood that as kids, so when we congregated at a school yard, if you had six people, or ten or 20, somebody had to organize it, and it was always me."</p> <p class="inputText">Growing up in a working class neighborhood in Chicago, Mike Krzyzewski learned to rely on himself to organize the games he wanted to play. When he failed to make his high school football team, he turned to basketball and became a local star. At that time, he hoped for nothing more than to teach high school and coach basketball. A recruiter from the U.S. Military Academy changed all that. At West Point and in the United States Army, Krzyzewski began playing and coaching at a higher level than he had thought possible.</p> <p class="inputText">Today, he is the winningest coach in the NCAA. As head coach of Duke University's Blue Devils, he has placed his team in five consecutive Final Fours and won five national championships. In 2015, he became the first coach in the history of NCAA Division 1 men's basketball to win 1,000 games.</p> <p class="inputText">While his teams have boasted such star players as Grant Hill, Christian Laettner and Shane Battier, the sustained success of the Duke program must be credited to Coach Krzyzewski's long-term strategy. While other schools may be willing to sacrifice their academic criteria for the sake of a winning team, "Coach K" holds his players to the highest standards on and off the court. 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329/https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/what-it-takes/id1025864075?mt=2" target="_blank"> Listen to this achiever on <i>What It Takes</i> </a> </h3> <p class="sans-6 banner__text m-b-0"><i>What It Takes</i> is an audio podcast produced by the American Academy of Achievement featuring intimate, revealing conversations with influential leaders in the diverse fields of endeavor: public service, science and exploration, sports, technology, business, arts and humanities, and justice.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <header class="editorial-article__header col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 text-xs-center"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> <h3 class="serif-3 quote-marks">Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.</h3> </header> </div> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar clearfix"> <h2 class="serif-3 p-b-1">Duke of the Court</h2> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> February 13, 1947 </dd> </div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><p class="inputTextFirst">Mike Krzyzewski (pronounced Sha-shef-ski) was born in Chicago and raised on the city’s Northwest side, among other working class Polish-American families. His father was an elevator operator, his mother a cleaning woman. The family shared a two-story home with relatives. From an early age, Mike showed enthusiasm for all sports, but by high school he was focusing on basketball. As a high school athlete, he made such an impression that he was recruited by Coach Bob Knight for the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he became captain of the basketball team. After graduation, he served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1974.</p> <figure id="attachment_14252" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14252" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignright"><noscript><img class="wp-image-14252 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-129923409_master.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-14252 size-full lazyload" alt="WEST POINT, NY - 1966: Mike Krzyzewski #12 of the Army Black Knights poses with head coach Bobby Knight circa 1966 in West Point, New York. (Photo by Army/Collegiate Images/Getty Images)" width="2280" height="3315" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-129923409_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-129923409_master-261x380.jpg 261w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-129923409_master-523x760.jpg 523w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-129923409_master.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14252" class="wp-caption-text">Mike Krzyzewski of the Army Black Knights with head coach Bobby Knight at West Point, 1966. (Getty Images)</figcaption></figure> <p>During his military service, he coached service teams and served for two years as head coach at the U.S. Military Academy Prep School at Belvoir, Virginia. After resigning from the service with the rank of Captain in 1974, Krzyzewski worked as a graduate assistant to his old Army coach, Bob Knight, at Indiana University. The following year, he returned to West Point as head coach. In 1980, he accepted an invitation to become head coach at Duke University, where he has remained. The first three seasons were disappointing, but over the next few years “Coach K,” as he is often called, led the Duke program through a remarkable turnaround. In 1984, Krzyzewski led his Blue Devils into the NCAA tournament for the first time.</p> <p class="inputText">Krzyzewski’s team reached the Final Four in 1986 and came within one game of winning the championship. In that year, they had played more games than any other team in the history of college basketball. With the departure of the five seniors on the squad, many observers expected a sharp decline in Duke’s basketball fortunes, but Krzyzewski’s 1987 Devils won 24 games and made it to the Sweet 16, losing to Indiana, which went on to win the national championship. From 1988 to 1992, he led his team to the Final Four for five consecutive seasons. UCLA’s legendary John Wooden is the only other coach in the history of the tournament to perform this feat.</p> <p>In 1990, Duke again came within only one game of winning the national championship. Krzyzewski at last led Duke to its first national championship in 1991. In the banner year of 1992, Duke maintained the national number-one ranking throughout the season, and again won the national title, this time by 20 points. Mike Krzyzewski is the only coach since John Wooden to win two consecutive NCAA championships.</p> <figure id="attachment_14253" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14253" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-14253 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-458340778_master.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-14253 size-full lazyload" alt="College Basketball: NCAA Final Four: Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, Christian Laettner (32), Bobby Hurley (11), and teammates victorious with trophy after winning National Championship game vs Michigan at Humphrey Metrodome. Minneapolis, MN 4/4/1992 CREDIT: Manny Millan (Photo by Manny Millan /Sports Illustrated/Getty Images) (Set Number: X42701 )" width="2280" height="1530" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-458340778_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-458340778_master-380x255.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-458340778_master-760x510.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-458340778_master.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14253" class="wp-caption-text">Duke head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski celebrates with players after winning 1992 National Championship.</figcaption></figure> <p class="inputText">The Duke team made it to the championship game again in 1994, losing to Arkansas by only four points. After the tournament, Coach K underwent back surgery and was forced to take a ten-month break from coaching, but he returned to lead the Blue Devils into three more NCAA tournaments in 1996, ’97 and ’99. In 1992 <i>The Sporting News </i>named him Sportsman of the Year. He was the first college coach to have been so honored. He has also been named Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (1991) and by <i>Basketball Times</i> (1997).</p> <figure id="attachment_35860" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-35860" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-35860 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Krzyzewski-CoachKpanel_Summit.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-35860 lazyload" alt="Summit panel discussion with Mike Wallace, Robert H. Schuller, Rosa Parks, Mike Krzyzewski, Naomi Judd." width="2280" height="1542" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Krzyzewski-CoachKpanel_Summit.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Krzyzewski-CoachKpanel_Summit-380x257.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Krzyzewski-CoachKpanel_Summit-760x514.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Krzyzewski-CoachKpanel_Summit.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-35860" class="wp-caption-text">Members of the American Academy of Achievement in a panel discussion held at the 1995 Summit symposium at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia nearby Colonial Williamsburg: Heather L. Whitestone, Mike Wallace, Reverend Robert H. Schuller, Rosa Parks, Coach Tom Osborne, Coach Mike Krzyzewski, Naomi Judd, and Lady Bird Johnson.</figcaption></figure> <p class="inputText">Coach Krzyzewski and many of his players are also active in international basketball. He served as head coach of the bronze-winning American team at the FIBA World Championships and won a silver medal at the Goodwill Games in Seattle. He assisted his old mentor Bob Knight at the 1984 Olympics and has served as chairman of the Player Selection Committee for all U.S. teams, including the 1991 Pan Am Team and the 1992 Olympic Team. As assistant coach to the legendary “Dream Team” he shared in the gold medal won by the U.S. at Barcelona. On October 26, 2005 Coach Krzyzewski was selected to be the head coach for the 2008 USA Olympic Senior National basketball team. With players like Carmelo Anthony, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Jason Kidd, Team USA claimed their spot in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and brought home the gold medal, a feat Krzyzewski-led teams would repeat in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.</p> <figure id="attachment_13977" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13977" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-13977 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-K-Mike-AP08082408767.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-13977 size-full lazyload" alt="USA's coach Mike Krzyzewski, center, wears his players gold medals as they celebrate after beating Spain 118-107 in the men's gold medal basketball game at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. Flanking Krzyzewski is Deron Williams, left, and Jason Kidd. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)" width="2280" height="1681" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-K-Mike-AP08082408767.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-K-Mike-AP08082408767-380x280.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-K-Mike-AP08082408767-760x560.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-K-Mike-AP08082408767.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-13977" class="wp-caption-text">Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski celebrates with players after their victory at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. (AP)</figcaption></figure> <p>Mike Krzyzewski makes his home in Durham, North Carolina, where he and his wife, Mickie, have long been active in community campaigns against drug abuse and drunk driving. In past years, Coach and Mrs. Krzyzewski served as co-chairs of the Duke Children’s Miracle Network Telethon. Throughout his career, Coach K has seen himself as more than a coach to his players. During his tenure at Duke, of all the students who have played for him for four seasons, only two have failed to graduate on time. No other NCAA Division I college basketball team can make this claim.</p> <figure id="attachment_14251" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14251" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-14251 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-84200485_master.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-14251 size-full lazyload" alt="Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski at courtside, in a 2008 game against Xavier University." width="2280" height="1517" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-84200485_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-84200485_master-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-84200485_master-760x506.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-84200485_master.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14251" class="wp-caption-text">Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski at courtside, in a 2008 game against Xavier University. (Capozzola /Sports Illustrated)</figcaption></figure> <p>To date, Krzyzewski has placed his team in more NCAA tournament Final Fours than any coaches other than UCLA’s Wooden and Dean Smith of North Carolina. He has won more Final Four games than anyone but UCLA’s Wooden, and has the highest winning percentage in the NCAA tournament of any currently active coach. Duke’s victory over Arizona in the 2001 tournament gave Krzyzewski his third NCAA championship, tying him with his old coach and lifelong mentor, Bob Knight.</p> <figure id="attachment_59783" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-59783" style="width: 1164px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-59783 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2011-SI-Pat-Summitt-Mike-Krzyzewski-sportwoman-and-sportsman-of-the-year-1.png"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-59783 size-full lazyload" title=" (Simon Bruty)" alt=" (Simon Bruty)" width="1164" height="1502" data-sizes="(max-width: 1164px) 100vw, 1164px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2011-SI-Pat-Summitt-Mike-Krzyzewski-sportwoman-and-sportsman-of-the-year-1.png 1164w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2011-SI-Pat-Summitt-Mike-Krzyzewski-sportwoman-and-sportsman-of-the-year-1-294x380.png 294w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2011-SI-Pat-Summitt-Mike-Krzyzewski-sportwoman-and-sportsman-of-the-year-1-589x760.png 589w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2011-SI-Pat-Summitt-Mike-Krzyzewski-sportwoman-and-sportsman-of-the-year-1.png"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-59783" class="wp-caption-text">2011: Sports Illustrated‘s Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year, Pat Summitt, head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteer basketball team, and Mike Krzyzewski, head men’s basketball coach at Duke University.</figcaption></figure> <p>A cliffhanging 61-59 victory over Butler in the 2010 tournament gave him a long-sought fourth championship, surpassing Knight’s record and equaling that of Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp. Coach K broke another record in 2011, when Duke beat Michigan State 74-69 in the State Farm Champions Classic, giving Krzyzewski his 903rd win. This victory broke another tie with Knight and made Mike Krzyzewski the winningest coach in the history of NCAA Division 1 basketball. Duke’s victory over St. John’s at Madison Square Garden on January 25, 2015 was his 1,000th victory, a record never before attained by any coach in the division. Duke ended the 2015 tournament defeating Wisconsin 68-63, giving Coach K his fifth national title.</p> <figure id="attachment_14254" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14254" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-14254 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-513256056_master.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-14254 size-full lazyload" alt="Coach Mike Krzyzewski of the Duke University Blue Devils reacts during their game against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in 2016. Duke won 79-71. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)" width="2280" height="1746" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-513256056_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-513256056_master-380x291.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-513256056_master-760x582.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-513256056_master.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14254" class="wp-caption-text">Coach Mike Krzyzewski reacts during a game against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in 2016. Duke won 79-71.</figcaption></figure> <p>The following year, Krzyzewski coached the U.S. men’s basketball team to a gold medal at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>A 99-96 victory over Serbia captured a third consecutive Olympic gold medal for the U.S. men’s team and Mike Krzyzewski. Over the years, Coach K has turned down spectacularly lucrative offers to coach professional teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers. His continuing commitment to the college game, and his loyalty to the Duke University community have made him an exemplary figure in the world of sports.</p> </body></html> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane" id="profile" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <header class="editorial-article__header"> <figure class="text-xs-center"> <img class="inductee-badge" src="/web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/themes/aoa/assets/images/inducted-badge@2x.png" alt="Inducted Badge" width="120" height="120"/> <figcaption class="serif-3 text-brand-primary"> Inducted in 1995 </figcaption> </figure> </header> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <dl class="clearfix m-b-0"> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Career</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> <div><a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.basketball-coach">Basketball Coach</a></div> </dd> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> February 13, 1947 </dd> </div> </dl> </aside> <article class="col-md-8 editorial-article clearfix"> <p class="inputTextFirst">“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. We understood that as kids, so when we congregated at a school yard, if you had six people, or ten or 20, somebody had to organize it, and it was always me.”</p> <p class="inputText">Growing up in a working class neighborhood in Chicago, Mike Krzyzewski learned to rely on himself to organize the games he wanted to play. When he failed to make his high school football team, he turned to basketball and became a local star. At that time, he hoped for nothing more than to teach high school and coach basketball. A recruiter from the U.S. Military Academy changed all that. At West Point and in the United States Army, Krzyzewski began playing and coaching at a higher level than he had thought possible.</p> <p class="inputText">Today, he is the winningest coach in the NCAA. As head coach of Duke University’s Blue Devils, he has placed his team in five consecutive Final Fours and won five national championships. In 2015, he became the first coach in the history of NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball to win 1,000 games.</p> <p class="inputText">While his teams have boasted such star players as Grant Hill, Christian Laettner and Shane Battier, the sustained success of the Duke program must be credited to Coach Krzyzewski’s long-term strategy. While other schools may be willing to sacrifice their academic criteria for the sake of a winning team, “Coach K” holds his players to the highest standards on and off the court. In so doing, he has won the accolades of his peers and the affection of the entire Duke community.</p> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane" id="interview" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <div class="col-md-12 interview-feature-video"> <figure> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/tgJ8fJfWF6I?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0&end=3240&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_02_48_13.Still002-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_02_48_13.Still002-760x428.jpg"></div> <div class="video-tag sans-4"> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> <div class="video-tag__text">Watch full interview</div> </div> </div> </figure> </div> <header class="col-md-12 text-xs-center m-b-2"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> </header> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <h2 class="serif-3 achiever--biography-subtitle">Duke of the Court</h2> <div class="sans-2">Baltimore, Maryland</div> <div class="sans-2">May 22, 1997</div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8">   <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>It must be hard to single out particular moments, but are there one or two in your career that stand out as the most exciting or thrilling?</b></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Mike Krzyzewski: There are a lot, but two of them will do. After we beat Nevada Las Vegas, in the semi-finals in the 1991 Final Four, they’d won 45 in a row. The Duke world — and in some respects the basketball world — went crazy. We still had to win one more game. We had to beat a really good Kansas team to win the National title. It’s so difficult to aim high again, after you’ve achieved something great, especially right away. Here, 48 hours later, we had to win again, and we did. I love that. I love that we were able to do that. The second time…</span></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/7-OYJy5evjM?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0&end=65&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_51_02_19.Still014-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_51_02_19.Still014-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>I was involved in probably one of the great games in the history of college sport, when we beat Kentucky in ’92 for the Eastern Regional Championship.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Rick Pitino and his team played great, and so did we.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We were down by one, with 2.1 seconds to go in overtime, and the world seemed like it was over.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At that point we, as a group, connected again, and we said, “We’re going to win.” <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We talked through how we were going to win, and then we did.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Everyone said we were lucky, but my feeling is that luck favors people who trust one another. Those two moments are, for me, great moments.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>The way you describe it, it sounds like it could have taken half an hour, but it must have been very fast. What you’ve just described, when you said, “We’re going to win.” How long did that take?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: TV time-outs take longer than normal time-outs but, a couple minutes. Our bench was on one end of the court, and Kentucky had just scored at the other end of the court. They scored, and our team called a time-out with 2.1 seconds. You could see our team coming to the bench.</p> <p>I had a towel in my hand, and I threw it to the floor. I was angry, not because we were losing, but the shot that put us behind was a bank shot, from straight on, and you don’t do that. People don’t shoot bank shots. To me, it was a lucky shot, and I didn’t want to lose that way. So I used my anger properly.</p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/tUpaLS-L_Zg?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_03_19_07.Still012-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_03_19_07.Still012-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/vision/">Vision</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">I met my team, and I told them, “We’re going to win,” and I looked into their eyes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then, when they sat on the bench, I looked at them again, I said, “We are going to win.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I felt we were connected.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then I asked Grant Hill — instead of telling him what to do — I asked Grant, “Can you throw the ball 75 feet?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And he said, “Yes, I’ll throw it.” And by saying it already, I think he had already done it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In fact, I think if you had interviewed him now, he would say that, “Well, I gave my word that I was going to do it.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But if I said, “Grant, you throw it,” it would have been me telling him to do something.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I asked Christian Laettner, “If they ring you up, can you catch it?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He says, “Coach, if Grant throws it, I’ll catch it.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All of a sudden, there was that — some people would call that bravado, or cocky talk, but we had gone from walking off the court scattered, mentally and physically, to now, a minute and a half later, to believing that we were going to win. Everybody interacted in that. Laettner’s remark set a very positive tone. It was like, “Yeah, come on, we’ll do it.” Grant threw it, and Christian caught it, and he shot it, and he hit it, and we won. It was truly a unique time.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><figure id="attachment_13978" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13978" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-13978 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-Mike-Kryzevski-the-shot298.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-13978 size-full lazyload" alt="Christian Laettner makes the winning shot against Kentucky in the 1992 Eastern Regional Final. (© Chuck Liddy/The Herald-Sun 1992)" width="2280" height="1634" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-Mike-Kryzevski-the-shot298.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-Mike-Kryzevski-the-shot298-380x272.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-Mike-Kryzevski-the-shot298-760x545.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-Mike-Kryzevski-the-shot298.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-13978" class="wp-caption-text">Christian Laettner makes the winning shot against Kentucky in the 1992 Eastern Regional Final. (The Herald-Sun)</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/IptxXXPp-Vw?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_35_33_24.Still016-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_35_33_24.Still016-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/integrity/">Integrity</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">In that time of just utter happiness for us, right in front of me, there was a kid named Richie Farmer from Kentucky.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I didn’t even see the shot go in, because everyone jumped up, but I knew when he shot it that it was going to go in.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Our kids were jumping, and I looked at Richie Farmer, and he was like this: “That could have been us.” So my initial thing was to go out to him, and not to our team, just because it seemed a little bit unfair, that you could be in a great game like that, and there was this extreme here, and this extreme down here.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As a teacher, I didn’t like that, but that’s the way it is.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That’s where great moments come about.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But I’ll always remember my feeling about Richie, when that happened.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><p><strong>The picture of failure?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: Right, but it wasn’t failure, really. The world would say it was failure. But the difference was so small between us. They played great, but they lost. What I try to get across to our guys, and I hope I did it with Richie Farmer in a brief instant, is to say, “You didn’t fail.” Sometimes when you say that after you win, people say, “You can say that, because you just won.” But I truly felt that. To have empathy for someone who has lost, I think, gives you greater appreciation for what you’ve won. I think it gives you better perspective than by looking at it as, “We’re hot stuff now. We’ve won.”</p> <p><strong>So it’s about ethics too, and empathy.</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: Ethics and empathy. I hope we never lose that in collegiate sport. Professional sport is different. It has an entertainment aspect and, I wouldn’t say winning at all cost, but it has a clearer definition of winning. Collegiate, amateur sport does not have that, where only the winner is a winner. There are a lot of winners. I hope I never lose that in amateur sport. We are losing it a little bit, and I worry about that.</p> <figure id="attachment_13979" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13979" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-13979 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-originalAP100314021492.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-13979 size-full lazyload" alt="Duke's Mike Krzyzewski calls to players during a 2010 Atlantic Coast Conference game against Georgia Tech. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)" width="2280" height="3250" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-originalAP100314021492.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-originalAP100314021492-267x380.jpg 267w, /web/20200917235329im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-originalAP100314021492-533x760.jpg 533w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-originalAP100314021492.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-13979" class="wp-caption-text">Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski calls to players during a 2010 Atlantic Coast Conference game against Georgia Tech. (AP)</figcaption></figure> <p><strong>Tell us about the first National title, how that felt. Did you feel, going into that season, that you had the championship team?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in ’88, ’89 and ’90. But we did not win the National Championship. I feel that, because we were achieving at a high level, I rationalized somewhat, at a moment when maybe I could have pushed my team a little bit more.</p> <p>In ’91, we were playing Nevada Las Vegas, and they’d won 45 in a row. It was almost like it would be okay to lose. Everybody would say, “Oh, that’s all right.” That, to me, was the biggest obstacle. I was most proud of that game, because, as a leader, I helped my group overcome rationalization at the highest level. When we beat them, and then beat Kansas for the National Championship, everyone was saying, “Boy, you won the National Championship,” but for me, it was amazing because I got over that final hurdle, as a leader and a teacher. Now I know how to do that, and I thought it helped me the next year when we won it a second time.</p> <p><strong>You had suddenly reached this exalted level, but how do you push on from there? Is that similar?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: Yes. It’s the challenge of continuing success. What floor are you on as far as your success ladder?</p> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/vRKMjcwpIKk?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0&end=480&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_44_38_27.Still015-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_44_38_27.Still015-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/perseverance/">Perseverance</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How do you get the passion to do that again?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We won it again right away, the next year.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn’t give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I went right away into the second one.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I didn’t want any “computer viruses” getting into my mind.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I even played a game, a mind game, a word game with myself.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After you win the next year, people will say you’re “defending” your National Championship.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I prohibited the use of the word “defend.” What I said, for that team, I said, “We’ve already got the National Championship for that year.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We’re going to pursue.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And sometimes the difference between defend (protective) and pursue (go after), I think, was the difference in us winning it the second time.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p class="p1">Now you might ask, why didn’t we win it the third time?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I probably didn’t do as good a job of coming up with those words, or someone else did a better job of coming up with their words and talent than I did.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s interesting, what the human mind can do.</p> <p class="p3"><b>How do you help the kids get over that kind of defeat?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When they’re so close, it must be devastating.</b></p> <p class="p1">Mike Krzyzewski: Each group and each youngster is different.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.</p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/JNHFsA5vXsk?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0&end=69&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_23_42_10.Still005-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_23_42_10.Still005-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/perseverance/">Perseverance</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">In 1989, I remember, we lost in Seattle to Seton Hall.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After the ball game, we came back to my suite where we meet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was the last time our group of people were going to be together.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That’s the last game.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But there were other kids who were coming back.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “Instead of going home, we’re going to stay through the National Championship game, because we’re eventually going to win a National Championship.” Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And then to go on, maybe, to put them in a position where they might be able to.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I try to do that, and now I’m teaching it in game situations.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In November, I might do a thing where it’s an end-of-game situation: “Well, this is what we’re going to do, fellas, in the Final Four.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Little things like that throughout the year create a championship mindset.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235329if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/7Rr7yC-Zl_o?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_10_55_08.Still010-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Krzyzewski-Mike-1997-MasterEdit.00_10_55_08.Still010-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/integrity/">Integrity</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it’s tough to lie to somebody.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You give respect to somebody.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“It’s you that I’m talking to right now.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As a result, I know that there are going to be times on that bench where there’s two seconds to go, or where a kid’s having a bad game, and I’ve got to say, “Look, you’re playing horribly, but you’re not horrible. So get your head going,” or whatever words I might use.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“I believe in you.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I might not even say it that way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It might be two seconds, and we have to connect.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If we haven’t done the work beforehand, you can’t wait ’til those two seconds to do it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I speak to a lot of groups, and with business groups, a lot of them ask about crisis management.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“What do you do with crisis management?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Well, the main thing that you do with crisis management is trust one another.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Well how do you get that?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wow, it takes a while.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But being honest with one another is the very first and most important step. That’s where teamwork comes in. If you have talent with teamwork, you’ve got a chance to be a championship-level team.</p> </div> </div>     <aside class="collapse" id="full-interview">    <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>Do you manage the crisis by building trust well before the crisis? Is that what you’re saying?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: You have to have that trust develop before the crisis. If you haven’t had it up to that time, and you have a crisis, then maybe you can use that crisis to develop it, but you’re probably going to lose during that time. Maybe you can use that to mold your group together, as long as — when those things happen — you have a thing called collective responsibility. Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.</p> <p>I tell my players, “A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That’s how I want you to play.” If, when we lose I say, “You didn’t do a good job,” there’s no fist. Collective responsibility is saying, “We lost. Why did we lose, and how can we get better?” If we can do that, an amazing thing happens.</p> <p>I love that about my job. But in March or April, it ends. The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it’s a whole new team. So we try to cram in as much as possible. We can’t wait two weeks. “Well, I’m going to see how Jimmy reacts to this.” We don’t have time for that. We’ve got to tell him, “Jimmy, you’re not doing a good job,” or “You’re being selfish,” or “You’re great.” We’ve got to cut to the chase right away. I like that about my job.</p> <p><strong>When did you first know what you wanted to do for a career?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: I always wanted to teach. My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that’s still what I do: teach. So I knew about it when I was in high school.</p> <p><strong>What about teaching drew you?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: The thing I loved the most — and still love the most about teaching — is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits. You feel like you’ve been a part of them, you become something bigger than yourself. I really love that. I’m passionate about it, and I’ve seen that happen for me personally, so I want to do it with other people.</p> <p><strong>What about basketball attracted you?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school. I was actually a good athlete, a real good athlete in my neighborhood. When I went to high school, an all-boys’ school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn’t make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down. Then I went into basketball, and all of a sudden, I said, “Well I’m going to make it,” and I kind of focused on basketball. As a result, I started to love basketball, and I played it all the time.</p> <p><strong>When you found basketball, did you feel like “this is it?”</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: With me and basketball, it became part of me. First of all, what happens is, when you’re good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity. I liked that. “Well, here’s Mike, he’s a basketball player.” That connection was good. It helped me have confidence in other areas, because it wasn’t just “Mike,” it was “Mike, who is also a good basketball player.” So I worked at it, and I really liked it. It became a friend. When I had troubles, I’d go out — with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you’d go out and shoot, and you’d fantasize. Your imagination could run wild. I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one. It helped me become a much more confident person. It was much more than a game to me, and always has been.</p> <p><strong>Were your parents supportive of your goal?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: My parents didn’t really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles. My older brother is about twice as big as me, he’s about six-foot six, 250 pounds. He didn’t play sport. Being in the band, or other things, those were things that you did. They were not frivolous. Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn’t go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.</p> <p><strong>That’s interesting. So they began to see your side.</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: They saw that it impacted me in a positive sense. They understood that I became more disciplined. So they allowed my teachers or my coaches to coach me. They were on the side of the teacher, so to speak, in wanting to see me getting better. I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts. So my parents worked with the coaches and the teachers to make sure that I continued to do that.</p> <p><strong>Was there a particular experience that you remember as a kid, that had a big effect on you?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: Probably the biggest thing was the impact all these teachers had on me. I went to a Catholic grade school; there were nuns teaching you. When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest. It was because of the way the nun took to me. She brought out some things that were not seen as “boyish” at that time, like sensitivity to others. I think that was the start of my becoming a very ethical person, hopefully. Although I didn’t become a priest, at that point I started learning my value system. That was a turning point in my life.</p> <p><strong>What was the nun’s name, do you remember?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: Yes, Sister Lucinda. In fact, she’s no longer a nun. As I attained some success at Duke, and was on TV and everything, I got a letter from a lady in Michigan who said, “This is who I was, and this is who I am.” We’ve corresponded since then. She had a big influence on me.</p> <p>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. He’d tell me to shoot 25 times a game, and I’d say, “No, I can’t do that, everyone will hate me.” “You do it.” And even though I didn’t do that all the time, he kept pushing me to be better. If success or talent were on floors, maybe I saw myself on the fifth floor. He always saw me on the twentieth floor. As a result, I climbed more floors when I was with him. I’ve tried to use that in my way of teaching. He even helped me choose West Point to go to school, where I was afraid of that. He felt that that would give me many more floors in my building, and he was right.</p> <p><strong>What was his name?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: His name was Al Ostrowski. He was only in his twenties, and he wasn’t even a former basketball player, but he really believed in me, and that had a huge impact. I wasn’t alone in my pursuit of whatever excellence I was trying to attain.</p> <p><strong>Where was that?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: In Chicago, at Webber High School. It was an all-boys, Catholic school. I just felt that he was always there as a safety net. I became very good. I wasn’t a great player in college, but I was a very good high school player. It really shaped a lot of what I do as a basketball coach now.</p> <p><strong>Were there books that were important to you as a young kid?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: I probably shouldn’t say this, but I was not much of a book person. I loved to learn, but I learn by doing. I learn from my experiences. There’s an expression, “ants in your pants.” I couldn’t sit down long enough to get involved. I’m still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.</p> <p><strong>Was there any other person who particularly inspired you as a kid?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed. We weren’t dirt poor, but we weren’t real rich or anything. I would always have what I needed, and when I looked in her closet, she would have two dresses. She taught me to be outside of yourself, to get outside of yourself, and to be committed to somebody. That’s the same thing that I try to teach.</p> <p>Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I’ve always looked up to. She never went to high school. I remember, in an old Polish way, she said, “Mike, I went to the eighth grade twice because the teacher liked me.” She had great, self-effacing humor, and loved life. I really admire her.</p> <p><strong>Is she still alive?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: She passed away this last year. She was 83, and she died of breast cancer. She was a remarkable, remarkable lady.</p> <p><strong>When you were a kid, did you sense that you had a particular gift?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: I knew I was a leader, because I always organized things. 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. We understood that as kids, so when we congregated at a school yard, if you had six people, or ten or 20, somebody had to organize it, and it was always me. So I knew that I had that.</p> <p>The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness. I hated to lose. At times, I probably did ugly things, throwing stuff. It was my temper. I learned later to use my anger, or my competitiveness, in more of a positive sense. I knew that I had those two things: the leadership, and a high level of competitiveness. Some of my friends would tell me that. They’d say, “Let’s wait ’til Mick comes…” (at that time I was called Mickey) or, “Mickey will show us what to do.” I enjoyed that, I’ve always loved leadership.</p> <p>I think that’s one of the reasons that West Point was so good for me. When people say, “What did you major in?” I think I majored in leadership. That’s what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that’s great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.</p> <p><strong>Did you feel you were different from the other kids in any way?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: I did. It may sound so arrogant — not that I thought I was better — but I felt that the game couldn’t start unless I organized it, or that it wasn’t going to be run as well. It sounds arrogant, but I really believed that. I would try to impose my will in those settings, because I found that if you didn’t, people would just stand around and do nothing.</p> <p><strong>So you think you’ve always liked motivating people?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: Yes, to get them moving. I didn’t like just standing and not doing anything. I needed to be doing something. That’s why sport was so good. That’s why basketball was so good, because I didn’t really need you or anyone else to play it. It would be better if we played four-on-four or five-on-five, but I could go out there alone. I wouldn’t just practice my shooting, I would play a whole game in my mind. I didn’t need anyone else, and at least I’d be doing something.</p> <p>Maybe that’s one reason I didn’t read that much, because I was making up games. That’s another thing, we made up games. We didn’t have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn’t skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.</p> <p><strong>Some people who have attained great things or a sense of personal excellence in sport, or in other physical realms, talk about having a vision. Without that vision, they can’t see the finish line, they can’t see themselves at the finish line. Do you believe your imagination has something to do with winning too?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: Absolutely. Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. In my case, and I try to tell kids — I teach at summer camp — to imagine yourself. But it’s your imagination. Why would you lose in your imagination? Why would you not achieve really neat things in your imagination? Why would you let someone else do your imagination for you? So in all these games that I would fantasize, I always won, and I always played well. Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I’m going to win some time. I’ve never felt myself a loser. I never let a defeat determine what I think of myself. I think that I win. I don’t all the time, but if I play long enough, I’m going to be a winner. I believe wholeheartedly that that came about because of imagination when I was younger.</p> <p><strong>Have you ever had doubts about your abilities, and been a little confused?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: I think you’re not a human being unless you have doubts and fears. Being in a team sport, having good coaches, having support systems are so important. I’ve been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it. So at times, when I might have been doubting, or fearful, or having those negative feelings, those inhibitors, there was reassurance. And the fact that, ultimately, the fear of losing did not stop me, because I knew even if I lost, I still had these people. I wasn’t losing everything. The fear of failure, I was able to get over that because of the support systems.</p> <p>I’ve tried to use that in teaching my own players over the years. I’m fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we’ve won a lot. I have some kids who haven’t failed that much. But when they get to college, they’re going to fail some time. That’s a thing that I can help them the most with. But in order to do that, you have to connect with that person. That’s why I like the support of parents or guardians. Let the kids fall down, and let me pick them up, so we can develop that relationship where we can do it quicker.</p> <p><strong>So they’re not destroyed by their failing.</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: They’re not destroyed by it. 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.</p> <p><strong>You’re revered in this field as someone who develops a relationship with the kids. How important is that to you?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: The relationship that I have with my players is the most important aspect of my job. I’m selfish about this. I want to make sure I’ve had a positive impact on that young man’s life. But I also want him to know that he has an impact on my life. Relationships are not one-way. I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back to you, and that’s where a relationship is developed. I don’t make a player, and a player doesn’t make me a coach. We make each other. I think, if you’re honest with a player like that, they appreciate that.</p> <p>When they go on that court, even though I’m coaching them, they’re alone out there. They’re in their underwear. I mean, they wear short and they’re exposed. They have to know that they can do it. Am I there for them? Yes, but they have to know that they do it. I tell them that. “I’m impressed with how you can do that.”</p> <p>If people don’t know sport that well, they might imagine that when I come into a locker room before a game, I’m going to say “We’re going to win one for so-and-so,” or “We’re going to do it for Duke.” That’s not always the case.</p> <p>Sometimes I go into that locker room, and I’m afraid. All of a sudden, I look at Bobby Hurley, or I look at Steve Wojciechowski, or Grant Hill, or kids that have played for me. I see in their eyes anticipation. I see ambition, I see a glaze, and all of a sudden I say, “Holy mackerel, I’ve got a chance to coach these guys tonight.” And it helps me get over my fear, and hopefully I’m doing the same for them. That’s when you connect as a group, when that’s going back and forth.</p> <p><strong>You’ve implied that parents sometimes get in your way.</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters. When I was growing up, the teacher was always right in my parents’ eyes. If I came home from school and said, “Ma, can you believe? Father Roag did this…” And she’d say, “Father Roag must have had a reason.” It wasn’t, “Poor Mike. I’m going to go and talk to Father Roag. I’m going to get on him.” I’m old-school in that way.</p> <p>I don’t have the time, necessarily to explain everything. If you have to explain everything to everyone, that means you’ve never developed trust. I would like the parents, if they choose me to coach their son to say, “Coach, I trust you with Grant’s development, and I’ll do everything I can.” That doesn’t mean we never talk to them, but I’m going to do some things that put them in tough situations. They’re not going to develop fully just by me patting them on the back, or saying, “You’re a good boy.”</p> <p>We’re not only trying to build good habits. Sometimes we’re trying to destroy bad habits. A bad habit being the fear of failure. How do you destroy that? Is there a book on that? Is there a pill that you take? It’s different in every individual. In some cases, you have to exorcise that. It takes passion, it takes a lot. If somebody’s just looking from outside, they’ll say, “Well, you shouldn’t do that.” I’ll say, “No, you don’t understand what I’m doing.” And I wouldn’t try to do it unless I already connected with this kid and we had a relationship.</p> <p>I need to have that bond between me and that kid. Maybe that’s intimidating at times, to the parent. I don’t want to be the kid’s father, or mother, or take the place of the parent. On the contrary, I want to be that kid’s mentor, teacher, coach, whatever name you want to give me.</p> <p><strong>So you see the role of teacher as one of pushing them higher?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: I’m extending their limits. As I said before, I don’t know how many floors are in their building, but if they’re on floor seven I’m with them to 27 or 37. You don’t climb those floors by just saying, “You can do it,” or even just working hard. You have to attack some things. In doing that, you have to be ethical, you have to be fair. No physical abuse, I’m not saying anything like that. I would never hit a kid. But I’m going to knock the heck out of fears, the fear of looking stupid.</p> <p>There are kids don’t want to do something because they’re afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they’re always trying to extend themselves.</p> <p><strong>How would you describe the contribution that you’ve made, the most important thing that you think you’ve done?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: First of all, I don’t think there’s only one good coach. There are a lot of good coaches. When you win, it validates what you do. If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you’ve embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I’ve been able to win.</p> <p>What I’ve tried to do is tell people about the simple things of relationships and trust, and to use the coach as a teacher, so we don’t become big-headed. 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.</p> <p><strong>Steve Lavin at UCLA says that meeting you was like meeting Elvis, in a good sense, that he admires you as a coach and as someone who really connects with the kids.</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: Well, I can see myself in Steve Lavin. I’m older now, but I hope I’m still enthusiastic. I think that in sharing ideas with young, enthusiastic people, by associating myself with the Steve Lavins of the world who are trying to learn, it keeps you a little bit more grounded. Also, it gives you a chance to tap into their energy, their enthusiasm. You connect with kids, and look in their eyes and say, “Wow, they don’t know what they have, but I’m excited about working with them.” That’s what I do in my job. The kids I recruit give me a lot.</p> <p><strong>What’s your next big challenge?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: My next big challenge is my next team. My goal is not to win a National Championship, though I think we are going to win one again, or more. I believe that, but I don’t start out with numerical goals, like: we need to win 22 games, or we have to win a National Championship. Too many things can happen. I don’t want that to define what we’ve just done. I’ll know if we’ve done a good job, and I’ll try to convey that to my team.</p> <p>It’s exciting to me. What will these kids bring to me? Even the guys who’ve played for me before, they left me in April, who will they be when they come back to me in October? It’s amazing what happens. How will I react to who they are now? Will I be able to mold a unit that will best make use of their talents? That, to me, is what I do. If people want to watch us do that, and get excited about it, that’s great, but I don’t coach for the fans.</p> <p>At Duke University, we have a beautiful cathedral. In the cathedral, there’s an altar, and a lot of wood sculpting, carvings, and it’s just amazing. I have to think whatever man, or woman, or both, did those things, that if they were just sitting by a lake, making something, that they would make that as good as the one in the altar, because they did it for themselves. Their standards were so good. And then they allowed other people to share it. That’s how I try to coach my team. I believe that my standards, or what I want to accomplish for that team, are as high as any fan would want, but maybe the reasoning behind it would be a little deeper, or better for our youngsters to understand or learn from.</p> <p><strong>I want to ask you about the hyper-popularity of sport, and the fact that so many kids from the inner city and elsewhere dream of being a Michael Jordan or Grant Hill. I think a recent survey showed that an unbelievably high percentage of kids growing up in the inner city say they want to be professional basketball players. They’ll never make it, statistically. Is there a problem with the way that we glorify sports today, and pay our players? Is that related?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: The professional game has become so much entertainment. Some of the entertainment things even seep into Pee Wee League. The popularity of sport is going crazy. We’re on TV all the time, and being interviewed and whatever. I hope that there will be a little bit of a turn in the questions that are asked of us. Instead of us just talking about how we won a game, or specials on how a team got stronger, there wouldd be questions like: What else do you do?</p> <p>For the kids who go in the draft early, how many of them come back and actually go to school? There aren’t features on them. People who are in these positions, even though some of them don’t want to be called role models, they have a responsibility to say how hard it was to get to where they are. And have they missed out on anything? Maybe they wanted an education, are they pursuing it now? Instead of just looking at it one way, to explain it a little bit more.</p> <p>The other thing I think is that, in glamorizing sport, we glamorize the quick play, the dunk, the behind-the-back play, or whatever. We don’t give enough for what teamwork does. So our view of the sport has become very superficial. <em>Very</em> superficial. A lot of the kids who are learning to play the game now, they’re depth of knowledge of the game is — if you liken it to a body of water — it’s like a pond, whereas before it used to be a lake, an ocean. Somehow, we have to add depth to this new culture we’re in, because it’s creating some bad habits. It’s creating a situation where a kid puts all of his eggs in one basket, and he’s just not going to be successful, he’s not good enough.</p> <p>Even though he might be the best in his neighborhood, and people around him who have self-serving interests are trying to get him to do it, there are other neighborhoods. There are thousands of neighborhoods. Someone needs to put in their heads: “Yeah, you can go after this, but you can still go after something else.” That’s why Grant Hill is such a good example, or Michael Jordan, who left early but went back and got his education. People don’t talk about those things as much as they need to talk about them.</p> <p><strong>Before your time, Duke University was known primarily as a great center for academic study, not a place you would imagine a world-class basketball team emerging from. How has the academic environment enriched the basketball program, or vice versa?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: I feel very fortunate to coach at Duke, because the ideals that I have for a student athlete are what happens at Duke. It’s not like I have to impose that in their daily lives. They have to live that at Duke. Duke limits some of my recruiting, because not every youngster can get into Duke. But on the other hand, it broadens my recruiting, in that I can recruit kids from everywhere if they’re the type of kid who can make it at Duke. That doesn’t mean that kids who don’t make it at Duke are worse or better, it’s just that different schools are for different kids.</p> <p>What I’m able to do is bring in kids who want to do something besides play basketball. To me, that adds depth to them. They passionately want to be good basketball players, and play on a championship level team, but they also have another passion, whether it be business, law, medicine or engineering. I like that.</p> <p>The kids we recruit have a lot of talents. I don’t want to pigeon-hole them in one area. In fact, I tell them they shouldn’t come to Duke unless they want to do well academically, do well basketball-wise, and do well socially. I truly believe that, with the diversity we have in our student body, they learn more from the social contact they have with other successful, ambitious students, than they will from teachers or from me.</p> <p>Just living in a success-oriented environment, they’re able to have a better perspective on things. Their self-worth doesn’t hinge on whether we scored more points than another team. I think thatt’s healthy.</p> <p><strong>It sounds like they’ll be better prepared for the inevitable future, when their playing days are over. Even if they’re at the highest level, it doesn’t last long.</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: I think they’ll be better off, whether they’re pros or not. They’re able to handle the professional life better. They haven’t stopped being a human being, like, “I’m going to be a professional basketball player for these ten years.” No. “I’m going to be a guy who likes a lot of things, and who really wants to win at professional basketball.” When that’s over, they still have an identity.</p> <p>You want an identity for your whole life. If you choose something that’s going to give you an identity only for so long, and then it’s over, boy, you’ve given up everything. You don’t want that to happen to a kid. You don’t want that to happen to a person. You want them to be well-rounded.</p> <p><strong>Your grandparents were Polish immigrants.</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: Both sets of grandparents were born in Poland. There was no way that they could have foreseen. No way my mother — when I used to come back to Chicago in recruiting, I’d always stay with my mother. My Dad passed away when I was a senior at West Point. I’d come back, and we’d already been on TV, and she would just be sitting there late at night, and she’d say, “Mike, how is it you?” And she wasn’t knocking me, it was just that our group of people weren’t supposed to be able to do that. I would always tell her, I said, “Ma, because of you.” I said, “You made me good enough, where I can do this. You made enough sacrifices to put me with people who would help train me to do this. It’s because of you.” And I hope that whatever I do, I can do that for my kids.</p> <p><strong>What does the American Dream mean to you?</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: To me, the American Dream is the ability to pursue what you want to pursue. To be confident enough that whatever you want to be, if you have the talent, the desire, and the support throughout, you can attain it. I am very much the result of an American Dream. In fact, I didn’t dream as highly as I’ve actually attained. My dream was to be a high school teacher and coach. That’s what I wanted to do, and I was on a track to do that. But then I went to West Point, and all of a sudden I’m doing a lot more. I think the ability to have that, and to pursue it, is the biggest freedom that we could have. I hope we perpetuate that type of thought from generation to generation.</p> <p><strong>Thank you very much, Coach.</strong></p> <p>Mike Krzyzewski: Okay. I thank you.</p> </div>  </aside>  <div class="read-more__toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#full-interview"><a href="#" class="sans-4 btn">Read full interview</a></div> </article> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane" id="gallery" role="tabpanel"> <section class="isotope-wrapper">  <header class="toolbar toolbar--gallery bg-white clearfix"> <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="serif-4">Mike Krzyzewski Gallery</div> </div> <div class="col-md-6 text-md-right isotope-toolbar"> <ul class="list-unstyled list-inline m-b-0 text-brand-primary sans-4"> <li class="list-inline-item" data-filter=".photo"><i class="icon-icon_camera"></i>10 photos</li> </ul> </div> </header> <div class="isotope-gallery isotope-box single-achiever__gallery clearfix"> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4258911819887" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-originalAP100314021492.jpg" data-image-caption="Duke's Mike Krzyzewski calls to players during a 2010 Atlantic Coast Conference game against Georgia Tech. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)" data-image-copyright="Mike Krzyzewski" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-originalAP100314021492-267x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-originalAP100314021492-533x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.71710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-Mike-Kryzevski-the-shot298.jpg" data-image-caption="Christian Laettner makes the winning shot against Kentucky in the 1992 Eastern Regional Final. (© Chuck Liddy/The Herald-Sun 1992)" data-image-copyright="wp-Mike Kryzevski the shot298" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-Mike-Kryzevski-the-shot298-380x272.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-Mike-Kryzevski-the-shot298-760x545.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.73684210526316" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-K-Mike-AP08082408767.jpg" data-image-caption="Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski celebrates with players Deron Williams (L) and Jason Kidd after their victory at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)" data-image-copyright="Beijing Olympics Basketball Men" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-K-Mike-AP08082408767-380x280.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-K-Mike-AP08082408767-760x560.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-42-67298242.jpg" data-image-caption="Duke Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski during a 2015 game between the Duke Blue Devils and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. (© Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire/Corbis)" data-image-copyright="NCAA BASKETBALL: JAN 28 Duke at Notre Dame" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-42-67298242-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-42-67298242-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.74210526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-57063783_master.jpg" data-image-caption="Coach Mike Krzyzewski embraces player J. J. Redick of the Duke Blue Devils as they celebrate after a 78-76 win over the Boston College Eagles during the finals of the Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament in 2006. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Krzyzewski-GettyImages-57063783_master" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-57063783_master-380x282.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-57063783_master-760x564.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-84200485_master.jpg" data-image-caption="Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski at courtside, in a 2008 game against Xavier University. (Photo by Lou Capozzola/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Xavier University vs Duke University" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-84200485_master-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-84200485_master-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.453154875717" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-129923409_master.jpg" data-image-caption="Mike Krzyzewski of the Army Black Knights with head coach Bobby Knight at West Point, 1966. (Photo by Army/Collegiate Images/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Army Black Knights" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-129923409_master-261x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-129923409_master-523x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.67105263157895" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-458340778_master.jpg" data-image-caption="Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, Christian Laettner (32), Bobby Hurley (11), and teammates brandish trophy after winning 1992 National Championship. (Photo by Manny Millan/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Duke University vs University of Michigan, 1992 NCAA National Championship" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-458340778_master-380x255.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-458340778_master-760x510.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.76578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-513256056_master.jpg" data-image-caption="Coach Mike Krzyzewski of the Duke University Blue Devils reacts during their game against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in 2016. Duke won 79-71. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Wake Forest v Duke" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-513256056_master-380x291.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Krzyzewski-GettyImages-513256056_master-760x582.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.67631578947368" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Krzyzewski-CoachKpanel_Summit.jpg" data-image-caption="Summit panel discussion with Mike Wallace, Robert H. 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Arnold, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/robert-d-ballard-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-roger-bannister-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Roger Bannister</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-banville/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Banville</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/ehud-barak/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ehud Barak</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/lee-r-berger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lee R. Berger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-timothy-berners-lee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Tim Berners-Lee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/yogi-berra/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Yogi Berra</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/jeffrey-p-bezos/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jeffrey P. Bezos</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/benazir-bhutto/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Benazir Bhutto</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/simone-biles/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Simone Biles</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/keith-l-black/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Keith L. Black, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/elizabeth-blackburn/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/david-boies-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Boies</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/norman-e-borlaug/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/benjamin-c-bradlee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Benjamin C. Bradlee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/sergey-brin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sergey Brin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/carter-j-brown/"><span class="achiever-list-name">J. Carter Brown</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/linda-buck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Linda B. Buck, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/carol-burnett/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carol Burnett</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/george-h-w-bush/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George H. W. Bush</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/susan-butcher/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Susan Butcher</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-michael-caine/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Michael Caine</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/james-cameron/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Cameron</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/benjamin-s-carson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Benjamin S. Carson, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/jimmy-carter/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jimmy Carter</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/johnny-cash/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Johnny Cash</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/william-j-clinton/"><span class="achiever-list-name">William J. Clinton</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/francis-s-collins/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/denton-a-cooley/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Denton A. Cooley, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/francis-ford-coppola/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Francis Ford Coppola</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/ray-dalio/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Dalio</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/olivia-de-havilland/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Olivia de Havilland</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/michael-e-debakey-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/michael-dell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Michael S. Dell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/ron-dennis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Dennis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/joan-didion/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Joan Didion</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/david-herbert-donald-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Herbert Donald, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/david-doubilet/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Doubilet</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/jennifer-a-doudna-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/rita-dove/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Rita Dove</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/sylvia-earle/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/elbaradei/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mohamed ElBaradei</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/gertrude-elion/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/larry-j-ellison/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Larry J. Ellison</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/nora-ephron/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nora Ephron</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/julius-erving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Julius Erving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/tony-fadell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Tony Fadell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/paul-farmer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Farmer, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/suzanne-farrell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Suzanne Farrell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/anthony-s-fauci-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/sally-field/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sally Field</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/lord-norman-foster/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lord Norman Foster</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/aretha-franklin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Aretha Franklin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/milton-friedman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Milton Friedman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/carlos-fuentes/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Fuentes</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/athol-fugard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Athol Fugard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/peter-gabriel/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peter Gabriel</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/ernest-j-gaines/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernest J. Gaines</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/william-h-gates-iii/"><span class="achiever-list-name">William H. Gates III</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/leymah-gbowee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leymah Gbowee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/frank-gehry/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank O. Gehry</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/murray-gell-mann-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/carlos-ghosn/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Ghosn</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/vince-gill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Vince Gill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/ruth-bader-ginsburg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/louise-gluck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louise Glück</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/whoopi-goldberg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Whoopi Goldberg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/jane-goodall/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Jane Goodall</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/doris-kearns-goodwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/mikhail-s-gorbachev/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mikhail S. Gorbachev</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/nadine-gordimer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nadine Gordimer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/stephen-jay-gould/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/carol-greider-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carol W. Greider, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-grisham/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Grisham</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-john-gurdon/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir John Gurdon</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/dorothy-hamill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dorothy Hamill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/demis-hassabis-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Demis Hassabis, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/lauryn-hill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lauryn Hill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-edmund-hillary/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Edmund Hillary</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/reid-hoffman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Reid Hoffman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/khaled-hosseini/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Khaled Hosseini, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/ron-howard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Howard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-hume/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Hume</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/louis-ignarro-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/daniel-inouye/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Daniel K. Inouye</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/jeremy-irons/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jeremy Irons</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-irving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Irving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/kazuo-ishiguro/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Kazuo Ishiguro</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-peter-jackson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Peter Jackson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/donald-c-johanson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/frank-m-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank M. Johnson, Jr.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/philip-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Philip C. Johnson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/chuck-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Chuck Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/james-earl-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Earl Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/quincy-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Quincy Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/beverly-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Beverly Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/dereck-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dereck Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/paul-kagame/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Kagame</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/thomas-keller-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Thomas Keller</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/anthony-m-kennedy/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony M. Kennedy</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/carole-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carole King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/b-b-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">B.B. King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/coretta-scott-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Coretta Scott King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/henry-kissinger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/willem-j-kolff/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/wendy-kopp/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wendy Kopp</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/henry-r-kravis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry R. Kravis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/nicholas-d-kristof/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nicholas D. Kristof</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/mike-krzyzewski/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mike Krzyzewski</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/ray-kurzwell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Kurzweil</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/eric-lander-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/robert-s-langer-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/richard-leakey/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Richard E. Leakey</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/leon-lederman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leon Lederman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/robert-lefkowitz-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/congressman-john-r-lewis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Congressman John R. Lewis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/maya-lin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Maya Lin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/george-lucas/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George Lucas</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/paul-b-maccready-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul B. MacCready, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/norman-mailer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Norman Mailer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/peyton-manning/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peyton Manning</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/wynton-marsalis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wynton Marsalis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-c-mather-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John C. Mather, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/johnny-mathis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Johnny Mathis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/ernst-mayr-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/willie-mays/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willie Mays</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/frank-mccourt/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank McCourt</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/david-mccullough/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David McCullough</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/audra-mcdonald/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Audra McDonald</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235329/https://achievement.org/achiever/admiral-william-h-mcraven/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Admiral William H. 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