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Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.

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
Masterpiece
Later
Make
Life

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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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Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?
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Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?
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It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.
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Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen absorb their knowledge and use it.
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For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.
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We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.
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Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
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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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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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Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.
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Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is cherish friendship more.
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Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
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In spite of all that doctors know, and their studies never end, the best cure of all when spirits fall is a kind note from a friend.
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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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It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
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The team with the most talent usually wins.
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Being true to ourselves doesn't make us people of integrity. Charles Manson was true to himself, and as a result, he rightly is spending the rest of his life in prison. Ultimately, being true to our Creator gives us the purest form of integrity.
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Apply yourself everyday to just becoming a little bit better.
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As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.
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