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You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.
John Wooden
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John Wooden
Age: 99 †
Born: 1910
Born: October 14
Died: 2010
Died: May 26
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John Robert Wooden
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