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Commencement Speech by Mike Krzyzewski

Coach K at commencement

Mike Krzyzewski tells the Class of 2016 some of his strategies for taking a group of talented college-age basketball players -- or even a team of professional superstars -- and turning them into a successful unit. Those strategies may be the same they will want to use as they move forward in their lives.

He told the new graduates that they will be knocked down from time to time, “but failure or any kind of setback is not a destination. … There was something good about being knocked down as long as it wasn’t your destination.”