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I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

John Wooden

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN

Basketball Ingredient Team Team Work
I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
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Important Past Spend Time
Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
JOHN WOODEN

Coach Player Practice Teaching
I don’t believe in fate.
JOHN WOODEN

Believe Fate One Liner
Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
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Care Difference Gesture Motivational Opportunity Seek
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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Basketball Experience Motivational Talent
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
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Ability Accomplishment Measure Success
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
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Inspirational Life Peak Valley
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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Friendship Marriage Nice Person
Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.
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Believe Excuse Friendship never
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
JOHN WOODEN

Character Concern Reputation
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
JOHN WOODEN

Book Old Reading Worse
A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
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Admit Forget Learning Mistake Recognize Value
Never lie, never cheat, never steal.
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Cheat Lie never One Liner Steal
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.
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Argument Entrepreneur Life People Smart Surround
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.
JOHN WOODEN

Goodness Thankful Want

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