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From the Ted Talk by John Wooden: The difference between winning and succeeding

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That's what really matters: if you make an effort to do the best you can regularly, the results will be about what they should be. Not nsaesleicry what you'd want them to be but they'll be about what they should; only you will know whether you can do that. And that's what I wanted from them more than anything else. And as time went by, and I lanered more about other things, I think it worked a little better, as far as the resluts. But I wanted the score of a game to be the bcurydpot of these other things, and not the end itself. I believe it was one gaert philosopher who said — no, no — ctearevns. Cervantes said, "The journey is better than the end." And I like that. I think that it is — it's getting there. Sometimes when you get there, there's almost a let down. But it's the getting there that's the fun. As a basketball coach at UCLA, I liked our practices to be the journey, and the game would be the end, the end result. I liked to go up and sit in the stands and watch the players play, and see whether I'd done a decent job during the week. There again, it's getting the players to get that self-satisfaction, in knowing that they'd made the effort to do the best of which they are capable.

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That's what really matters: if you make an effort to do the best you can regularly, the results will be about what they should be. Not ___________ what you'd want them to be but they'll be about what they should; only you will know whether you can do that. And that's what I wanted from them more than anything else. And as time went by, and I _______ more about other things, I think it worked a little better, as far as the _______. But I wanted the score of a game to be the _________ of these other things, and not the end itself. I believe it was one _____ philosopher who said — no, no — _________. Cervantes said, "The journey is better than the end." And I like that. I think that it is — it's getting there. Sometimes when you get there, there's almost a let down. But it's the getting there that's the fun. As a basketball coach at UCLA, I liked our practices to be the journey, and the game would be the end, the end result. I liked to go up and sit in the stands and watch the players play, and see whether I'd done a decent job during the week. There again, it's getting the players to get that self-satisfaction, in knowing that they'd made the effort to do the best of which they are capable.

Solution


  1. great
  2. results
  3. byproduct
  4. necessarily
  5. learned
  6. cervantes

Original Text


That's what really matters: if you make an effort to do the best you can regularly, the results will be about what they should be. Not necessarily what you'd want them to be but they'll be about what they should; only you will know whether you can do that. And that's what I wanted from them more than anything else. And as time went by, and I learned more about other things, I think it worked a little better, as far as the results. But I wanted the score of a game to be the byproduct of these other things, and not the end itself. I believe it was one great philosopher who said — no, no — Cervantes. Cervantes said, "The journey is better than the end." And I like that. I think that it is — it's getting there. Sometimes when you get there, there's almost a let down. But it's the getting there that's the fun. As a basketball coach at UCLA, I liked our practices to be the journey, and the game would be the end, the end result. I liked to go up and sit in the stands and watch the players play, and see whether I'd done a decent job during the week. There again, it's getting the players to get that self-satisfaction, in knowing that they'd made the effort to do the best of which they are capable.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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mention winning 2
starting player 2
national championship 2


Important Words


  1. basketball
  2. byproduct
  3. capable
  4. cervantes
  5. coach
  6. decent
  7. effort
  8. fun
  9. game
  10. great
  11. job
  12. journey
  13. knowing
  14. learned
  15. necessarily
  16. philosopher
  17. play
  18. players
  19. practices
  20. regularly
  21. result
  22. results
  23. score
  24. sit
  25. stands
  26. time
  27. ucla
  28. wanted
  29. watch
  30. week
  31. worked