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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.
John Wooden
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John Wooden
Age: 99 †
Born: 1910
Born: October 14
Died: 2010
Died: May 26
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Indiana
John Robert Wooden
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