Author

John Wooden

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“Be interested in finding the best way, not in having it your way.”— John Wooden
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“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.”— John Wooden
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“Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.”— John Wooden
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“Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.”— John Wooden
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“We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.”— John Wooden
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“Passion is momentary love is enduring.”— John Wooden
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“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”— John Wooden
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“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”— John Wooden
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“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”— John Wooden
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“No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.”— John Wooden
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“I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.”— John Wooden
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“I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.”— John Wooden
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“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.”— John Wooden
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“If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.”— John Wooden
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“There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.”— John Wooden
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“I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.”— John Wooden
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“You can do more good by being good than any other way.”— John Wooden
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“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”— John Wooden
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“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.”— John Wooden
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“I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.”— John Wooden
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“My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.”— John Wooden
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“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”— John Wooden
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“Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.”— John Wooden
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“Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.”— John Wooden
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“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”— John Wooden