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I'm not afraid to die.

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
Afraid
Dies

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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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Confidence comes from being prepared.
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A mentor must always guide, never push. It was my job to listen to them, offer my perspective, and encourage them to pursue the ideals they believed to be true.
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Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip.
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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
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I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.
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Always think of passing the ball before shooting it.
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Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
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Make greatness attainable by all.
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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
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Show me what you can do don't tell me what you can do.
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Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are
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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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I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.
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Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.
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You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game, and you can win when you're outscored.
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The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.
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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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I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.
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The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.
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