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Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and greatly inspire others.

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
Drive
Inspire
Energy
Others
Stimulate
Greatly
Dedication
Enjoyment

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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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Being your best when your best is needed. The ability to enjoy challenges when things become difficult and to derive exhilaration from them.
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Class is an intangible quality which commands, rather than demands, the respect of others.
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With the experience to judge, one need not pre-judge.
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Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.
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Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
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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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Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.
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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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It's not how big you are, it's how big you play.
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It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.
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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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Never allow anyone else to define your success.
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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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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 eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
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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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You've never heard of them- and you never will .
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Always think of passing the ball before shooting it.
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It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.
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