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Young people need models, not critics...

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It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

By John Wooden

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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You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

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For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

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It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

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You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

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Nothing will work unless you do.

By John Wooden

Young people need models, not critics

By John Wooden

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

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You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

By John Wooden

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

By John Wooden

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

By John Wooden

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

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That's true,

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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

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It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.

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It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

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Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

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Better than any person my age has a right to,

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

By John Wooden

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then

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