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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
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Taught

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Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals
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Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.
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My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself
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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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Kindness makes for much better teamwork.
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Confidence comes from being prepared.
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Earn the right to be proud and confident.
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To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.
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I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.
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