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Confidence comes from being prepared.
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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To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.
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A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.
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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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Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals
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Being your best when your best is needed. The ability to enjoy challenges when things become difficult and to derive exhilaration from them.
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Always think of passing the ball before shooting it.
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Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.
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Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect to team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, cooperation, determination, industriousness, fight effort, and character.
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You can always do more than you think you can.
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It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.
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The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.
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If you do enough small things right, big things can happen
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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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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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I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.
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Drink deeply from good books.
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It is easier to reach our potential when we learn the value of including others in our quest.
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Do passing drills that come from your offense.
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No individual should take the blame for a loss, because no individual should get the credit for a victory.
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The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself.
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