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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
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My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself
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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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In spite of all that doctors know, and their studies never end, the best cure of all when spirits fall is a kind note from a friend.
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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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Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.
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Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.
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Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.
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The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.
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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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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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Happiness begins when selfishness ends.
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Ten strong horses could not pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other.
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Every person under your supervision is different. They're all different. They're identical in most ways, but not in all ways. You have to study and analyze every individual under your supervision and try to work with them in a way that will be most productive.
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Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.
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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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Hardship brings people closer together if you share it.
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Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect to team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, cooperation, determination, industriousness, fight effort, and character.
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I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.
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Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.
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I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
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