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John Wooden

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.


— John Wooden


#counts #know #learn #you

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.


— John Wooden


#fathers #inspiration #role-models #education

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.


— John Wooden


#inspirational #family

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.


— John Wooden


#success #inspirational

Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.


— John Wooden


#friendship

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


— John Wooden


#failure #fatal #might

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.


— John Wooden


#become #becoming #best #capable #comes

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.


— John Wooden


#becoming #best #capable #did #direct

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


— John Wooden


#interfere #you

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.


— John Wooden


#arriving #cannot #essential #faith #important






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Did you know about John Wooden?

He was also selected for membership in the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Wooden also authored a lecture and a book about the Pyramid of Success. He left it as a national powerhouse with 10 national championships--arguably the most successful rebuilding project in college basketball history.

Wooden was renowned for his short simple inspirational messages to his players including his "Pyramid of Success". Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood" he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period—seven in a row—as head coach at UCLA an unprecedented feat. As a player Wooden was the first to be named basketball All-American three times and he won a Helms National Championship at Purdue in 1932 seven years before the birth of the NCAA tournament.

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