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Happiness begins where selfishness ends.
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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Basketball
Motivational
Happiness
Ucla
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Nba
Coaching
Selfishness
Coaches
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The most important thing in the world is family and love.
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It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.
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Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker.
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Being true to ourselves doesn't make us people of integrity. Charles Manson was true to himself, and as a result, he rightly is spending the rest of his life in prison. Ultimately, being true to our Creator gives us the purest form of integrity.
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Be quick but do not hurry.
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If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing
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I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
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You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes
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We will begin by learning how to tie our shoes.
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Confidence comes from being prepared.
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You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.
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Too many people look on outscoring someone as winning, I never tried to get that across to my players.
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