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The best competition I have is against myself to become better
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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Military Officer
Hall
Indiana
John Robert Wooden
Basketball
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Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.
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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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It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.
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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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You haven't taught until they've learned.
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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
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My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions
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Respect a man, and he will do all the more.
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I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.
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Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability.
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You can always do more than you think you can.
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When you get to be 95, travel doesn't come as easily.
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I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.
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We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.
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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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Don't beat yourself. That's the worst kind of defeat you'll ever suffer.
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Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.
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There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
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