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John Wooden

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.
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Dictionary Hate Important Love Remove World
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
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
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Explanation Imitation Law Learning
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
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
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Character Concern Reputation Thinking
The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.
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Character Deep Man True Watch
We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
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Basketball Change Life Progress
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
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Family Important Love World
You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you’re outscored.
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Basketball Game Lose Win
Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
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Coach Player Practice Teaching
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
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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Ability Character Success
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
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Character Concern Reputation
It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.
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Creation Excellence Patience People Quick Time
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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It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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