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Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
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Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

by John Wooden
April 1997
Beginner
240 pages
5h 3m
English
McGraw-Hill
Audiobook available
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The Infection of Success

You become infected with success when you think that your past is going to have an impact on your future. Oh, it might have an effect on the opposition in that your success may affect their thinking. Fine, but do not let it affect what you do.

Learn from the past, don’t live in the past. The infection of success can lead you to live in the past, to believe that what happened before is automatically going to happen again. When that occurs you have been infected by success.

You have control only over the present, right now. Let me prove it to you. I ask you to do this: change the past. Even the smallest, most incidental, least important thing that happened in the past. Go ahead and show that you can change it.

The future? ...

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ISBN: 9780071507479