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You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that’s under your control and the other isn’t.
John Wooden
— John Wooden
Basketball coach, UCLA
Interview on Charlie Rose (2000), quoting his father

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