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Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

John Wooden

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John Wooden
Age: 99 †
Born: 1910
Born: October 14
Died: 2010
Died: May 26
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Military Officer
Hall
Indiana
John Robert Wooden
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Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.
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Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip.
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Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
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When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.
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Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.
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Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.
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Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.
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I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.
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The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.
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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
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You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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You haven't taught until they've learned.
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Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.
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Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.
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