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You have success within. It's up to you to bring it out.

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
Success
Bring
Within

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Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.
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If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.
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Good players can take coaching great players can take coaching and learn.
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The athlete who says that something can't be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it
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I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.
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Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.
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Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and greatly inspire others.
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You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.
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Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.
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Drink deeply from good books.
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The true leader isn't really looking for leadership. He's trying to set an example and be in the proper way to get the most productive results and don't realize it. When the followers get something done, if the leader has been what he should, they'll feel like they did it, not him. That's the way it should be.
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We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.
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How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.
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The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
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Happiness begins where selfishness ends.
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If you do enough small things right, big things can happen
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Make greatness attainable by all.
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Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.
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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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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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