Success John Wooden Quotes

#1. Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.

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#2. Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before.

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#3. You have success within. It's up to you to bring it out.

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. You must define success as making the complete effort to maximize your ability, skills, and potential in whatever circumstances - good or bad - may exist.

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#7. The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself.

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#8. Thou didst thy best, that is success.

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#9. I think anyone's success depends on working hard, Industriousness and Enthusiasm, enjoying what you are doing. You can't work your best if you're not enjoying what you are doing. No way you can force yourself to.

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#10. Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort

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#11. Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

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#12. What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'

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#13. 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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#14. Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.

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#15. The person who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success. I expected my players to make mistakes, as long as they were mistakes of commission. A mistake of commission happens when you are doing what should be done but don't get the results you want.

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#16. The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

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#17. The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

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#18. You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.

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#19. Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

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#20. Don't mistake activity with achievement.

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#21. Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

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#22. Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

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#23. Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.

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#24. Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources;

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#25. Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

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#26. I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential

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#27. Before success comes patience ... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

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#28. Never allow anyone else to define your success.

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#29. Success may result in winning, but winning does not necessarily mean you are a success.

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

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#31. Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

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