American - Coach | October 14, 1910 - June 4, 2010
Never lie, never cheat, never steal.
John Wooden
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What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
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If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
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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.
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You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
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In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.
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I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
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The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
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Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.
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