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John Wooden Inspirational Quotes (300)

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There are little details in everything you do, and if you get away from any one of the little details, you're not teaching the thing as a whole. For it is little things which, together, make the whole. This, I think, is extremely important.
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Details create success.
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Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.
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You haven't taught until they've learned.
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Next to love, balance is the most important thing.
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Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is cherish friendship more.
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Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.
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Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.
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I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.
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I don't think I was a fine game coach I think I was a good practice coach.
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Make each day a masterpiece.
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Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.
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Never complain about the officiating. It does no good. During the game I don't want to be fighting two opponents.
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It takes 10 hands to score a basket
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The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.
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The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed
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Earlier in life, I put family in front of faith. I've fixed that. But I always tried to keep work fourth on the list. I was proud when [my wife] Nellie told an interviewer, 'I never could tell whether John had a good practice or a bad practice, because he never brought it home'
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Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.
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Respect a man, and he will do all the more.
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If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.
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Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.
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When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.
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Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.
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It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.
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