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We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable.

John Wooden

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John Wooden
Age: 99 †
Born: 1910
Born: October 14
Died: 2010
Died: May 26
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John Robert Wooden
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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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I don't think I was a fine game coach I think I was a good practice coach.
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There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.
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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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My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself
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Losing does not make you a failure it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure
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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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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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