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I am not a strategic coach I am a practice coach.

John Wooden

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John Wooden
Age: 99 †
Born: 1910
Born: October 14
Died: 2010
Died: May 26
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Indiana
John Robert Wooden
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The most important thing in the world is family and love.
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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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Respect a man, and he will do all the more.
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Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.
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Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
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It is difficult for young players to learn - because of the great emphasis on records - but, ideally, the joy and frustration of sport should come from the performance itself, not the score. While he is playing, the worst thing a player can think about in terms of concentration - and therefore of success - is losing. The next worst is winning.
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Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.
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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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Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.
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