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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
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Others
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Dedication
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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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You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
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Leaders must have patience for those under your supervision. Don't expect too much too soon. Maybe it was easy for you, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy for somebody else. Be sure you have patience.
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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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Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.
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You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.
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A gifted player, who is not a team player, will ultimately hurt the team.
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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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If you do enough small things right, big things can happen
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When I am through learning, I am through.
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Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn't mean treating everyone alike.
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Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.
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Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.
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Show me what you can do don't tell me what you can do.
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Earlier in life, I put family in front of faith. I've fixed that. But I always tried to keep work fourth on the list. I was proud when [my wife] Nellie told an interviewer, 'I never could tell whether John had a good practice or a bad practice, because he never brought it home'
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Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.
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Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals
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Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.
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You can always do more than you think you can.
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I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
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