Quote: Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. [John Wooden]
Quote: Be prepared and be honest. [John Wooden]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. [John Wooden]
Quote: You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices. [John Wooden]
Quote: Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. [John Wooden]
Quote: Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. [John Wooden]
Quote: I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere. [John Wooden]
Quote: 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]
Quote: It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion. [John Wooden]
Quote: Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well. [John Wooden]
Quote: Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. [John Wooden]
Quote: Sports do not build character. They reveal it. [John Wooden]
Quote: Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. [John Wooden]
Quote: Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. [John Wooden]
Quote: Never mistake activity for achievement. [John Wooden]
Quote: Nothing will work unless you do. [John Wooden]
Quote: Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best. [John Wooden]
Quote: Young people need models, not critics... [John Wooden]