“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.”
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Andrew Taylor Still (1828–1917) Founder of Osteopathic Medicine
Still. A. T., Journal of Osteopathy, p. 127. https://www.atsu.edu/museum/subscription/pdfs/JournalofOsteopathyVol5No31898August.pdf/.
“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games”
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
The earliest quotes similar to this are presented as unattributed folk wisdom, such as this example from 1959:
As Brother Allen of Newsweek indicated, it has been fun, but don't try to rest on your laurels. Always remember, “YESTERDAY’S HOME-RUN DOESN’T COUNT IN TODAY’S GAME,” and today’s game is well under way.
The quote does not begin to be attributed to Babe Ruth until the 1980s, nearly 30 years after its first appearance.
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Source: F. N. Abbott, "On Your Marks", in [The Palm, vol lxxix, no. 1 (February 1959), Harry L., Bird (ed.), 1959, Champaign, IL, Alpha Tau Omega, 17, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuc.1744313v0079?urlappend=%3Bseq=19]
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=cQsKAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Yesterday%27s+home+runs%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Ruth
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
H. G. Wells (1866–1946) English writer
The Anatomy of Frustration (1936)
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
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“Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow!”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 36
“Today you feel uplifted. Do not let yesterday and tomorrow bring you down.”
Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810) Ukrainian rabbi
היום אתה חש מרומם. אל תתן לימות האתמול והמחר להשפיל את רוחך
Hayom ata hash m'romam. Al titen l'ymot ha'etmol v'hamahar lehashpil at ruhekha.
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