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What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.

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
Leader
Learns
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It is easier to reach our potential when we learn the value of including others in our quest.
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Good players can take coaching great players can take coaching and learn.
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It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying
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The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
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Build shelter against a rainy day.
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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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Never allow anyone else to define your 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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Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
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A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.
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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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You cannot antagonize and be a positive influence, and you will antagonize when you discipline through emotion.
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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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Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.
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If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing
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I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.
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It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.
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To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.
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I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.
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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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