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I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

John Wooden

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John Wooden
Age: 99 †
Born: 1910
Born: October 14
Died: 2010
Died: May 26
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John Robert Wooden
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One of the greatest motivating factors is the pat on the back, although with some individuals, you have to make the pat a little lower or a little harder.
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I'm not afraid to die.
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Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn't mean treating everyone alike.
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Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.
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The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is cherish friendship more.
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Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.
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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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When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.
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The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
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Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.
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You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
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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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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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A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people
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Discipline yourself - so others don't have to.
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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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I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.
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We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.
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