Morgan Wootten Quotes

#1. Play hard, play smart, play together, have fun.

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#2. Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

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#3. I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

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#4. I find that it really helps that I live in the States. I'm married to an American, and I have lots of American friends.

Emily Blunt

#5. To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

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#6. Basketball is a game and their primary reason for participating in the sport is simply for the pleasure they experience while playing. Don't be afraid to lose. Have fun while you're busy playing hard and playing smart.

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#7. It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone.

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#8. Most Christians never associate joy with repentance. But repentance is actually the mother of all joy in Jesus. Without it, there can be no joy. Yet, any believer who walks in repentance will be flooded with the joy of the Lord.

David Wilkerson

#9. Leadership starts at the top.

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#10. Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

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#11. The big thing is to make a winning effort. I'm not obsessed with wins.

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#12. I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Akhmad Kadyrov

#13. You paint the truth, Marguerite, I don't think you could work any other way.

Claudia Gray

#14. Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

Warren G. Bennis

#15. You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

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#16. True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

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#17. I was disquieted to realize that he had ceased to call me anything at all. That seemed impossible, but your children generally use your name when they want something, if only attention, and Kevin was loath to beseech me for so much as a turned head.

Lionel Shriver

#18. That's the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives, you get to make a difference. You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you've done something for someone who will never pay you back.

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#19. If I can pay the bills, I'm happy.

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#20. I'm glad the NCAA is pushing back the 3-point line a foot. I'm a big supporter of the 3-point shot; it's exciting. I hope the high schools adopt the same rule.

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Anthony Doerr

#22. Jesus always kept it real: He always responded in a way that led one to the end of ones self and presented one with a clear choice: Will I walk away feeling challenged or will I walk with Him being changed.

R. Alan Woods

#23. No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care.

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