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Only Quotes by John Wooden
- Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only…
- Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again.…
- When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement…
- I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live.…
- Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at time. That's the only way it happens-and when it happens, it…
- Approval is a greater motivator than disapproval, but we have to disapprove on occasion when we correct. It’s necessary. I make corrections only after I…
- Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.
- Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?
- Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.
- I always stress condition with my basketball players. I don’t mean physical condition only. You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally…
- Promise yourself you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible. Promise to think only of the best, to work only for the…
- There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.
- What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent…
- Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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