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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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No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
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I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
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People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.
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Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.
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It is difficult for young players to learn - because of the great emphasis on records - but, ideally, the joy and frustration of sport should come from the performance itself, not the score. While he is playing, the worst thing a player can think about in terms of concentration - and therefore of success - is losing. The next worst is winning.
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Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.
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If you do enough small things right, big things can happen
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A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people
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The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.
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No individual should take the blame for a loss, because no individual should get the credit for a victory.
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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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The more concerned we become over the things we can't control, the less we will do with the things we can control
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