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Great Quotes by John Wooden
- Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.
- A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.
- Reverse the ball one time for a good shot, two times for a great shot, three times for a layup.
- Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.
- When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to…
- Loyalty is very important when things get a little tough, as they often do when the challenge is great. Loyalty is a powerful force in…
- Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It…
- No matter how you total success in the coaching profession it all comes down to a single factor - talent. There may be a hundred…
- It is difficult for young players to learn - because of the great emphasis on records - but, ideally, the joy and frustration of sport…
- Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is…
- Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
- A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group,…
- The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.
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- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
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- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
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