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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
Bring
Within
Success

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You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.
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Losing does not make you a failure it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure
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When we aren't alert, we miss opportunities to improve ourselves. We should always watch for circumstances or situations that can help or harm us and be eager to learn from these encounters.
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Earlier in life, I put family in front of faith. I've fixed that. But I always tried to keep work fourth on the list. I was proud when [my wife] Nellie told an interviewer, 'I never could tell whether John had a good practice or a bad practice, because he never brought it home'
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When you get to be 95, travel doesn't come as easily.
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Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.
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I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it wont be successful.
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If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing
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It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.
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I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
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I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.
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We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable.
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I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows
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Motivating through fear may work in the short term to get people to do something, but over the long run I believe personal pride is a much greater motivator. It produces far better results that last for a much longer time.
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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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I constantly caution our teams: 'Play your game, just play your game. Eventually, if you play your game, stick to your style, class will tell in the end.' This does not mean that we will always outscore our opponent, but it does insure that we will not beat ourselves.
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Class is an intangible quality which commands, rather than demands, the respect of others.
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Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.
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I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.
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