John Wooden Quotes
"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights."
- John Wooden
(Related: Feelings, Rights)
"A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment."
- John Wooden
(Related: Coach, Correction, Resentment)
"Ability is a poor man's wealth."
- John Wooden
(Related: Wealth, Ability, Man, Poor)
"Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."
- John Wooden
(Related: Adversity, Being, Man, State)
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
- John Wooden
(Related: Character, Reputation)
"Be prepared and be honest."
- John Wooden
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden
"Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character."
- John Wooden
(Related: Talent, Character, Winning)
"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden
"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."
- John Wooden
(Related: Ability, Measure)
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."
- John Wooden
(Related: Change, Failure)
"I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent."
- John Wooden
(Related: Experience, Talent)
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
- John Wooden
(Related: Time, Right, Will)
"It isn't what you do, but how you do it."
- John Wooden
"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."
- John Wooden
(Related: Positive, Mistakes)
"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."
- John Wooden
(Related: Peace, Faith, Mind, Prayer)
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
- John Wooden
"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."
- John Wooden
(Related: Winning, Eyes, Possessions)
"Never mistake activity for achievement."
- John Wooden
(Related: Mistake, Achievement)
"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."
- John Wooden
(Related: Success)
"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."
- John Wooden
(Related: Success, Courage, Failure)
"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."
- John Wooden
(Related: Peace, Success, Mind, Result, Self)
"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
- John Wooden
(Related: God, Talent, Conceit, Fame, Man, Self)
"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
- John Wooden
(Related: Books, Old, Reading)
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
- John Wooden
(Related: People)
"What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player."
- John Wooden
(Related: Basketball)
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."
- John Wooden
(Related: Criticism, Praise, Weakness)
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
- John Wooden
(Related: Day, Will)
"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen."
- John Wooden
"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."
- John Wooden
(Related: Rest)