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The fans are very, very important in the team's success. Instead of acting up, you're cheering for the team.
Mike Holmgren
Success
You
Fans
Important
Instead
Cheering
Up
Very
Acting
Team
The important thing, I think, going into any organization, is that all of the principles, all of the decision-makers are pointed in the same direction, with the same motives, the same desires, and then you have a chance.
Mike Holmgren
You
Organization
Important
Think
Direction
Pointed
Principles
Important Thing
Motives
Same
Same Direction
Any
Going
Decision-Makers
Then
Thing
Chance
Desires
The mentor thing is overblown to me. I'm going to coach the player. I'm not going to have another player coach the player. They can be friends but when it comes to what I want him to do on the football field, that's my call, not another player's call.
Mike Holmgren
Me
Field
Mentor
Football
Football Field
Call
Him
Another
Friends
Going
Want
Coach
Thing
Player
Every organization is looking for... a guy who can be the coach for the next 10, 15 years. That's what they want. I get that.
Mike Holmgren
Organization
Looking
Every
Guy
Years
Get
Want
Coach
Next
Who
If I hire a coach, he's the coach and will run what he knows and is comfortable with. Will it be part of the process? Absolutely. But I am not going to interfere that way as the president.
Mike Holmgren
Will
President
Way
Run
Absolutely
He
Part
Knows
Comfortable
Am
Hire
Going
Process
Coach
Interfere
When you walk in the door at Green Bay and see the murals of all the football players you knew as a fan, it can get to you. I grew up being Bart Starr and Paul Hornung on the playground.
Mike Holmgren
You
Walk
Bay
See
Football
Knew
Football Players
Up
Green
Green Bay
Get
Being
Door
Fan
Grew
Paul
Bart
Mural
Players
Playground
It's special for me to coach the team Lombardi coached.
Mike Holmgren
Me
Coach
Coached
Team
Special
I'm very proud of the fact that we dispelled the myth about black athletes not being able to survive in Green Bay.
Mike Holmgren
Black
Myth
Bay
Athletes
Able
About
Fact
Proud
Very
Survive
Green
Green Bay
Being
To Survive
People ask me often, 'Why did you leave Green Bay? You had the best quarterback, you were going good and all that.' But I've always been one for challenges. Try to build something up, try something new, challenge myself.
Mike Holmgren
Best
Myself
Good
Me
You
Challenges
People
Try
Challenge
Build
Bay
Something
Something New
Had
New
New Challenge
Always
Leave
Quarterback
Were
Been
Up
Green
Green Bay
Did
Going
Often
Ask
Why
I've always wanted to buy a bookstore. You know, sell some of those muffins and a little coffee. I don't care if we make any money. I don't want to lose a lot of money, but we could visit with people and get books.
Mike Holmgren
Buy
You
People
Money
Coffee
Care
Lose
Books
Bookstore
Those
Visit
Some
Could
Know
Make
Always
Lot
Sell
Get
Any
Want
Wanted
Little
Muffins
I'm a football coach. It seems the league is cyclical and hiring young guys... but experience in the NFL still means a heck of a lot.
Mike Holmgren
Experience
Young
Seems
Guys
Football
Football Coach
League
Still
Hiring
Lot
Young Guys
Heck
Coach
Means
Cyclical
I took a leave of absence for a year to coach at San Francisco State under Vic Rowen, fully intending to go back to high school.
Mike Holmgren
School
Year
State
Took
Back
Francisco
High
High School
Absence
Leave
Go
Intending
San
San Francisco
Coach
Fully
Coaches who want to coach in the NFL usually don't go to the high school level for 10 years. They know where they want to go early.
Mike Holmgren
School
High
High School
Know
Go
Years
Where
Want
Coach
Coaches
Who
Level
Early
If you keep working at something and stay with it, eventually good things will happen to you.
Mike Holmgren
Good
You
Good Things
Will
Stay
Something
Happen
Working
Keep
Eventually
Things
You put a tremendous amount of energy, your whole body and soul into something, and you need to win once in a while. Otherwise, it becomes too hard.
Mike Holmgren
You
Soul
Win
Energy
Too
Otherwise
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Once
Something
Put
Becomes
While
Body
Your
Hard
Whole
Amount
Need
You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.
Mike Krzyzewski
You
See
Feel
Listen
Which
Moments
Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.
Mike Krzyzewski
Parents
Development
Also
Hinder
Really
Youngsters
Help
I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
Mike Krzyzewski
Positive
Me
Channel
Bad
Temper
More
Had
Sport
Up
Really
Helped
Growing
Growing Up
Acts
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
Mike Krzyzewski
Truth
Truth Is
People
Rules
Making
Making Decisions
Decisions
Many
Keep
Set
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.
Mike Krzyzewski
Time
Parents
Kids
Out
City
Take
Football
Leagues
Were
Up
Any
Little
Worked
Baseball
Growing
Growing Up
Play
Play Baseball
I always wanted to teach.
Mike Krzyzewski
Always
Wanted
Teach
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.
Mike Krzyzewski
Time
School
First
Down
Out
High
Tried
High School
Football
Knocked
Make
Catholic
Catholic School
First Time
With me and basketball, it became part of me.
Mike Krzyzewski
Me
Part
Became
Basketball
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.
Mike Krzyzewski
Time
Too Much
Parents
Big
Community
Too
City
About
Uncles
Sport
Polish
Understand
Real
Cousins
Were
Aunts
Chicago
Bunch
Families
Much
Really
Youngest
Inner
Inner City
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.
Mike Krzyzewski
Love
Music
Parents
Saw
Bit
Out
Would
Somewhat
Like
Liked
Sport
Learned
Because
Ball
Got
How
How Much
Go
Frivolous
Little
To Love
Little Bit
Much
Lessons
Rebelled
Play
Things
Playing
When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.
Mike Krzyzewski
Become
Priest
Grade
Sixth
Wanted
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