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Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.

John Wooden

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
JOHN WOODEN

Ability Character Success
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
Earn the right to be proud and confident.
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Confidence Earn One Liner Right
The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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Children Father Love Mother
Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.
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Deep Discipline One Liner Yourself
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
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Count Courage Failure Fatal Final Success
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
It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
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Basketball Finish Game Important Motivational Start
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
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Fame God Humble Man Talent
If I am through learning, I am through.
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Inspirational Learning One Liner
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
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
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
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Explanation Imitation Law Learning
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
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Family Important Love World
Well, if you’re true to yourself you’re going to be true to everyone else.
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Inspirational True Yourself
Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.
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Believe Excuse Friendship never
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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Be Yourself Time Try
I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don’t criticize a teammate. Never be late.
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Criticism Late Leadersship Player Rule
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
Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That’s in your power.
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Cease Encouragement Motivational Power
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
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Character Concern Reputation
I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
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Build Dad Father Transformation
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
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Doer Mistake Motivational Positive
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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Decision Inspirational People
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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Goodness Thankful Want
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
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
JOHN WOODEN

Future Profession Society Teacher

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