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When the legs go, the heart soon follows

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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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Legs
Basketball
Soon
Heart
Nba

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In spite of all that doctors know, and their studies never end, the best cure of all when spirits fall is a kind note from a friend.
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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
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Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is failure to act when action is needed. Use the information that you've acquired in the past through the experiences you've had and act with self-control - but act.
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Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.
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A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people
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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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When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome
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People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.
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Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.
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When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.
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Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating
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Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.
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The team with the most talent usually wins.
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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
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Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at time. That's the only way it happens-and when it happens, it lasts.
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You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.
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If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.
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