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Show me what you can do don't tell me what you can do.

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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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You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
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Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.
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I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
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The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.
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First, do not betray yourself. Second, do not betray those you lead.
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A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it
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People ask me if I'd permit fancy things, like dunks. Well, if they did dunk, it was with no fancy flair. No behind-the-back dribbles or passes unless necessary. If it was for show, you were on the bench.
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Constantly be aware and observing. Always seek to improve yourself and the team.
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To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.
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The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself.
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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
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Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings everyday.
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I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.
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Each of us must make the effort to contribute to the best of our ability according to our individual talents. And then we put all the individual talents together for the highest good of the group. Understanding that the good of the group comes first is fundamental to being a highly productive member of a team.
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Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.
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