John Wooden
John Wooden
John Robert Woodenwas an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood," as head coach at UCLA he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than two in a row. Within this period, his teams won a men's basketball-record 88 consecutive games. Wooden was named national coach of the year six times...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth14 October 1910
CountryUnited States of America
John Wooden quotes about
You can’t do anything about yesterday, and the only way to improve tomorrow is by what you do right now.
The close games are usually lost, rather than won. What I mean by that is games are mostly won because of the opponent making mistakes during crucial moments.
Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort
It's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them.
Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.
Details create success.
Never be disagreeable just because you disagree.
Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure
Bad times can make you bitter or better.
We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.
The person who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success. I expected my players to make mistakes, as long as they were mistakes of commission. A mistake of commission happens when you are doing what should be done but don't get the results you want.
You are no better than anyone else and no one is better than you.
Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.
It isn't about what you do, but how you do it