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"57 John Wooden Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 14 October 1910. Died: 4 June 2010 | Coach |

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Perfect Repay Someone Never
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Because Character Concerned Merely
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Be Careful Be Grateful Be Humble Careful
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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
After Counts Know Learn
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Cannot Interfere You Do
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You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Caught Criticism Either Get
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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Anything Doer Doing Makes
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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.

Against Art Be True Bible
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Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

Discipline Need Others Yourself
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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Ability Man Poor Wealth
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Acquainted Adversity Becomes Being
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Ability Accomplished Measure Should
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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Best For The People Make Out
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A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

Causing Coach Correction Give
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Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Before Consider Feelings Others
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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
Change Failure Fatal Might
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Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
Character Repeat Takes Talent
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It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Finishes Game Important Starts
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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Counts Courage Failure Fatal
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It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Big Big Things Details Happen
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If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Over Right Time Will
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What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

Basketball Basketball Player Far Important
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I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Experience Little Lot Rather
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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Become Becoming Best Capable
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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Become Becoming Best Capable
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All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
Get High Life Low
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Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

Dreams Give Up Will
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I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

Am Beliefs Common Common Man
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Never lie, never cheat, never steal.
Cheat Lie Never Steal
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Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Argue Life People Smart
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Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
Day Gone Only Today
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Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

Enduring Love Love Is Momentary
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Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

Be True Else Everyone EveryoneElse
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Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Best Just More No-One
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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 won't be successful.

Activity Any Business Family
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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Because Eyes Great He
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

About Books Keep New
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The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

Ingredient Main Rest Stardom
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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.

Acquired Arriving Cannot Essential
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Earn the right to be proud and confident.
Confident Earn Proud Right
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If I am through learning, I am through.
Am I Am Learning Through
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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.

Aware Bad Good Good And Bad
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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.

Around Away Eyesight Going
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If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.

Assistants Careful Coach Extremely
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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.

Also Deny Going Opposed
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No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

Best Honestly No-One Really
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The most important thing in the world is family and love.
Family Important Important Thing Love
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Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

Dictionary Hate Important Important Thing
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I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

Any Future I Think More
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If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

Anything Could Different Fact
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John Wooden Quotes & Sayings