"What you are as a person is far more important
 than what you are as a basketball player."
     - John Wooden
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The meaning of this quote is that being a basketball player or any career, isn't only you, you're more than that, being yourself is important, you want people to know who you really are, not as the person who plays basketball or work's, you want them to see that you're more, you have other things you like to do, you're not the same person everyday doing the same thing, you're being yourselves. that's the most important part!
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