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It's not how big you are, it's how big you play.

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
Basketball
Bigs
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What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience-even if you risk angering or hurting that person-you are offering the most valuable gift of all.
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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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Every person under your supervision is different. They're all different. They're identical in most ways, but not in all ways. You have to study and analyze every individual under your supervision and try to work with them in a way that will be most productive.
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Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.
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Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.
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If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.
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We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.
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Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
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When I am through learning, I am through.
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Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.
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It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.
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When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.
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Winning takes talent to repeat takes character.
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I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.
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A life not lived for others is not a life, a game not played for others is not a game.
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Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.
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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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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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Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.
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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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