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To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

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
Character
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Talent
Winning

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Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.
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Character is more important than any other leadership trait.
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It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.
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The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.
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Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability.
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Every person under your supervision is different. They're all different. They're identical in most ways, but not in all ways. You have to study and analyze every individual under your supervision and try to work with them in a way that will be most productive.
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Never allow anyone else to define your success.
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Working with others makes us much more than we could ever become alone
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I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.
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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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Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.
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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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Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.
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Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.
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The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed
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We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable.
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In spite of all that doctors know, and their studies never end, the best cure of all when spirits fall is a kind note from a friend.
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You have success within. It's up to you to bring it out.
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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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Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.
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