John Wooden Quotes
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If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
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It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
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I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
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The four laws of learning are: the first is demonstration of what you want. The second is the criticism of the demonstration. The third is the imitation of the correct model, and the fourth is repetition, over and over until it becomes habit where is you don’t think about it.
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Never mistake activity for achievement.
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The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
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Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
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In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.
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Make each day your masterpiece.
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I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
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There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
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I've been blessed in so many ways.
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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
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Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
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It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
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Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
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You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
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Somebody asked me - you know, how come it took you so long to win a national championship? And I said, 'I'm a slow learner; but you notice when I learn something, I have it down pretty good.'
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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
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Don’t beat yourself. That’s the worst kind of defeat you’ll ever suffer.
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Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.