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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
Attainable
Greatness
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You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don't try to play theirs.
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The true athlete should have character, not be a character
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You can respect a person without necessarily liking that individual.
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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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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
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When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.
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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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There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.
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People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.
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Being true to ourselves doesn't make us people of integrity. Charles Manson was true to himself, and as a result, he rightly is spending the rest of his life in prison. Ultimately, being true to our Creator gives us the purest form of integrity.
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You are no better than anyone else and no one is better than you.
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The close games are usually lost, rather than won. What I mean by that is games are mostly won because of the opponent making mistakes during crucial moments.
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Don't beat yourself. That's the worst kind of defeat you'll ever suffer.
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If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing
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Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.
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As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.
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Leaders must have patience for those under your supervision. Don't expect too much too soon. Maybe it was easy for you, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy for somebody else. Be sure you have patience.
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The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.
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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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Respect a man, and he will do all the more.
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