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
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
The team is the star, never an individual player.
If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.
Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.
Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.
Young people need models, not critics.
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.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that's teamwork.
Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip.
Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.