The best Quotes by John Wooden

The best Quotes by John Wooden

John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

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Young people need models, not critics.

Upbringing Role Models

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

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Dreaming Giving Up Motivation

Never lie, never cheat, never steal.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

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Gratitude Talent Arroganz

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

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It's not how big you are it's how big you play.

(Most successful coach in NCAA history)

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That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

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Welcome to a city where people trying to disappear aren't actually trying.

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I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

Catherine O'Hara

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Linda: "Why did you decide to come to Los Angeles?"
Lucifer: "The same reason as everyone else: the weather, p*rnstars, Mexican food."

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People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.

Craig Kilborn

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.

Michael Connelly in The Lincoln Lawyer - The Brass Verdict

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.

Los Angeles Taiwan

What does a man from Indiana say in bed?
Hoosier Daddy?!

I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.

Adam Driver

After I sang 'Back Home In Indiana' the first time, I became a Hoosier.

Black bandana, sweet Louisiana
Robbin' on a bank in the state of Indiana
She's a runner, rebel and a stunner
On her merry way sayin', 'Baby, what you gonna- ?'
Lookin' down the barrel of a hot metal .45
Just another way to survive

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California, Album: Stadium Arcadium

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Louisiana Indiana

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Indiana - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.

Ar-Pharazôn in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 4

Politics Small Things

Even the smallest of us are capable of great things.

Master Chow in Minions - 2: The Rise of Gru

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

Children have got to be free to lead their own lives.

Sebastian in The Little Mermaid

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Children & Childhood Upbringing

Talk is cheap, but when you go out there and prove it - you're the first one to show up for practice, and you're the last to leave - that's how you lead by example.

Rajon Rondo

Training Role Models

When you speak and represent the person of Jesus Christ in all actions of your life, people are drawn to that. You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.

Kurt Warner

It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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When dreaming we enter a world, that's entirely our own.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up!

Alfred in Batman - Begins

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Giving Up Beginning

There's winning and there's losing - and in life both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.

Magic Johnson

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Ambition Giving Up

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

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Breakup Beginning Motivation

Not all lies are bad, just as the truth is not always good.

New Moon Luna in Epic Seven

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Rebecca Yarros in The Empyrean - Fourth Wing

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

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Humanity Gratitude Animals Dogs

Learn to treasure your life because unfortunately, it can be taken away from you anytime.

L Lawliet in Death Note

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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Joanne K. Rowling

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People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Frank Sinatra

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Happiness Self-Confidence Talent

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

Rita Moreno

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Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

William Paul Young in The Shack

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Friendship Family

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

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Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

Stephen Curry

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Basketball Golden State Warriors

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

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Failures & Mistakes Ambition Basketball

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