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When I am through learning, I am through.

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
Perseverance
Learning

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The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.
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The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.
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Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.
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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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If you do enough small things right, big things can happen
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I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.
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Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.
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The most important thing in the world is family and love.
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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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When the legs go, the heart soon follows
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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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Champions are brilliant at the basics.
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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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Build shelter against a rainy day.
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Make greatness attainable by all.
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Drink deeply from good books.
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Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker.
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I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day
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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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Passion is temporary. It doesn't last long. Love is enduring. And that's the important thing. If we all had love in our lives to the degree that we should, it would be much happier.
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