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A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her own example.
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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Indiana
John Robert Wooden
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Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.
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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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Earn the right to be proud and confident.
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Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.
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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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Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.
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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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I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.
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Be quick, but don't hurry.
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The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.
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Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.
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Constantly be aware and observing. Always seek to improve yourself and the team.
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Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.
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If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.
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Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.
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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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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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Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.
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I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.
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