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Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

John Wooden

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John Wooden
Age: 99 †
Born: 1910
Born: October 14
Died: 2010
Died: May 26
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John Robert Wooden
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Apply yourself everyday to just becoming a little bit better.
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
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You've never heard of them- and you never will .
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I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.
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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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I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.
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It is harmful to compare yourself to others. Others will do that for you.
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You can’t do anything about yesterday, and the only way to improve tomorrow is by what you do right now.
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What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience-even if you risk angering or hurting that person-you are offering the most valuable gift of all.
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Motivating through fear may work in the short term to get people to do something, but over the long run I believe personal pride is a much greater motivator. It produces far better results that last for a much longer time.
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Make each day a masterpiece.
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The best competition I have is against myself to become better
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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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Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.
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There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows
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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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The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.
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Losing does not make you a failure it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure
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The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast.
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