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John Wooden Quotes

«Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.»
«The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.»
Author: John Wooden | About: Books | Keywords: Old Ones, the Old Ones
«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.»
«Be prepared and be honest.»
Author: John Wooden | Keywords: prepared
«Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.»
«Ability is a poor man's wealth.»
Author: John Wooden | About: Ability, Wealth | Keywords: poor man
«Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.»
Author: John Wooden | Keywords: turn out
«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. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.»
«What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.»
«Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.»
Author: John Wooden | Keywords: grandfathers

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