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" Ability is a poor man's wealth. "
John Wooden
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" If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around. "
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" Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. "
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" You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. "
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" It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. "
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" Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone. "
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" No one can really honestly be the very best, no one. "
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" It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. "
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" Discipline yourself, and others won't need to. "
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" There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much. "
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" Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that. "
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" If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning. "
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" I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me. "
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" I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way. "
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