What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.
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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.John Wooden
Ben has really embraced the tradition of the program, and growing up in Southern California, he understands what it really means. To see him teaching those same principles to his players just gives me a lot of pride.
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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
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Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
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No written word, no spoken pleaCan teach our youth what they should beNor all the books on all the shelvesIts what the teachers are themselves.
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