Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
JOHN WOODENThe best competition I have is against myself to become better.
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A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
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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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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
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Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.
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It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
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Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.
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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.
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The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
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I’m not afraid to die.
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The best competition I have is against myself to become better.
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Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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