John Wooden Quotes

Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.

John Wooden

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• As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Child
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• One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

  

  Zola Budd
  • World
  • Small
  • Looking Back

• In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • History
  • Science
  • Respect

• Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Thought

• I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.' That way you won't be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in - which has happened to me.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Love
  • Me
  • Fall

• We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Christian

• I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Life
  • Good

• When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Mother

• The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'

  

  Anthony Foxx

• We've had to be escorted out of venues, things like that. We get security guards now.

  

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• There are two types of directors: the directors who take and directors who give.

  

  Allu Arjun

• I'm not a big practice guy at all.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Guy
  • Practice

• On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat Race. That was part of the impetus for us to start rowing.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss
  • Boat

• I'm a walkawayer. If someone brings me a really crap meal in a restaurant I will tell them it's wonderful and then just never go to the restaurant again. I think that's the best way to do it generally, rather than sit and fight and annoy your head. Just pretend to enjoy it and then leave.

  

  Jennifer Saunders

• You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

  

  Lena Dunham

• I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.

  

  Mark Teixeira

• To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • People
  • Soul
  • Coaching

• If everything was perfect, it would always be a person-first conversation, but whenever I have the opportunity, I lead with my personality. If they're looking and seeing the disability first or the chair first, I know that I have the ability to change that.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Opportunity
  • Perfect
  • Personality

• I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Silence
  • Reserved
  • Moral Crisis

• I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • Kids
  • Animal

• Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.

  

  John Wooden
  • Coaching