John Wooden Quotes About Basketball
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I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.
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The best competition I have is against myself to become better
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My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions
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Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.
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Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.
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Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.
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Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.
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Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.
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A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
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Confidence comes from being prepared.
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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. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it.
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Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.
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Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games
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The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in marriage, at your job, in the community, for your country. Make the effort to contribute in whatever way you can. You may do it materially or with time, ideas, or work. Making the effort to contribute is what counts. The effort is what counts in everything.
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I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as an English teacher until my last as UCLA basketball teacher/coach, I was determined to make the effort to become the best teacher I could possibly be, not for my sake, but for all those who were placed under my supervision.
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Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.
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The more concerned we become over the things we can't control, the less we will do with the things we can control
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
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Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.
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Drink deeply from good books.
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Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker.
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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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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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I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.
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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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A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.
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When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.
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Do passing drills that come from your offense.
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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 and mentally conditioned.
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