“Don’t beat yourself. That’s the worst kind of defeat you’ll ever suffer.
reported by Bill Walton”

—  John Wooden

Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000)

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American basketball coach 1910–2010

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