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Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.

John Wooden

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John Wooden
Age: 99 †
Born: 1910
Born: October 14
Died: 2010
Died: May 26
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I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.
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The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.
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Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
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Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting, teaching and coaching are the two most important professions in the world.
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With the experience to judge, one need not pre-judge.
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For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.
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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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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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The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands.
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Discipline yourself - so others don't have to.
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We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.
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A good banker isn't careless with pennies a good leader isn't sloppy about details.
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A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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The most important thing in the world is family and love.
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The Good Lord in his infinite wisdom, did not create us all equal when it comes to size, strength, appearance, or various aptitudes. But success is not being better than someone else, success is the peace of mind that is a direct result of self-satisfacti on in knowing that you gave your best effort to become the best of which you are capable.
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Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.
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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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