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I don't think I was a fine game coach I think I was a good practice coach.

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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Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
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Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.
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You haven't taught until they've learned.
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Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.
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Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible.
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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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Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.
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We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable.
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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.
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I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
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There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
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Passion is temporary. It doesn't last long. Love is enduring. And that's the important thing. If we all had love in our lives to the degree that we should, it would be much happier.
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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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The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.
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Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.
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