If I am through learning, I am through.
JOHN WOODENWhat is right is more important than who is right.
More John Wooden Quotes
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No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
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I think you have to be what you are. Don’t try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.
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When you hurry you’re more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you’re not quick you can’t get things done.
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You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you’re outscored.
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Never lie, never cheat, never steal.
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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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All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
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If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
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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.
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What is right is more important than who is right.
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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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Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.
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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
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I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I’m going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.
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Earn the right to be proud and confident.
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