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Thoughts to Ponder

"It's what you learn, after you know it all, that counts. - John Wooden." "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? John Wooden." "We are, what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, it is not an act, but a habit." "The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else." "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Henry David Thoreau" "Don't give up, - don't ever give up." "Do not let what you cannot do, interfere with what you can do. John Wooden" "First, master the fundamentals. - Larry Bird" "90% of the game is played above the shoulders." "unity begins with U " "The harder you work...the more fun you will have! :)" "The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. - Bill Russell" "Young people need models, not critics... -John Wooden" "Sports do not build character; they reveal it... -John Wooden" "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there... -John Wooden" "It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. -John Wooden" "...For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal, if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment. -John Wooden" "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. -John Wooden" "You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.... -John Wooden" "Be quick, but don't hurry. -John Wooden" "Leadership - helping others to succeed." "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent Van Gogh" "You play the way you practice. - William J. McMinn" "Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier. - Mother Teresa" "Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are heading." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. "There is no more miserable human being than one in which nothing is habitual but indecision" - William James "Think of what you can do with what there is." - Ernest Hemingway "We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions." - Isaac Singer "One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks." - Jack Penn "The only thing that comes to us without effort is old age." - Gloria Pitzer "Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price." - Red Aurbach "What to do with a mistake--recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it." "Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you." "In life you are given two ends, one to think with - the other to sit on. Your success in life depends on which end you use the most. Heads you win, tails you lose." "If I was given eight hours to chop down a tree, I would spend seven hours sharpening my ax. Abraham Lincoln." "Kids don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." "When you have the attitude of a champion, you see adversity as your training partner." "The difference between an extraordinary player and an ordinary player, is that little extra." "If you want your dreams to come true, get out of bed." "The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. Vince Lombardi" "Great efforts spring naturally, from great attitude. Pat Riley." "What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." "The best teams have chemistry.They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for the common goal." "Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. John Naismith - Basketball Hall of Fame."

Quote Of The Day

""Necessity is the mother of taking chances" Mark Twain

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