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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
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Indiana
John Robert Wooden
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As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.
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I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.
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When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.
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When we aren't alert, we miss opportunities to improve ourselves. We should always watch for circumstances or situations that can help or harm us and be eager to learn from these encounters.
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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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I am not a strategic coach I am a practice coach.
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Loyalty is very important when things get a little tough, as they often do when the challenge is great. Loyalty is a powerful force in producing one's individual best and more so in producing a team's best.
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Winning breeds winning.
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How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.
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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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The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed
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The more concerned we become over the things we can't control, the less we will do with the things we can control
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The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast.
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Ten strong horses could not pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other.
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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
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I constantly caution our teams: 'Play your game, just play your game. Eventually, if you play your game, stick to your style, class will tell in the end.' This does not mean that we will always outscore our opponent, but it does insure that we will not beat ourselves.
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When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.
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You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don't try to play theirs.
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I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.
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No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
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