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Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

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
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Never
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Too often, we just ask for help instead of really giving thanks for the many things that we've had and are so helpful to us that we did nothing to deserve, so we should give thanks each and every day and pray for guidance in helping us along the proper path.
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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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I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day
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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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Next to love, balance is the most important thing.
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What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.
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You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.
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You can respect a person without necessarily liking that individual.
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Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.
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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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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
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It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying
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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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Don't beat yourself. That's the worst kind of defeat you'll ever suffer.
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A gifted player, who is not a team player, will ultimately hurt the team.
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