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
Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed
Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.
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.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
I would never have a player come close to taking that many shots in a game. I don't ever recall seeing a player who could do so much with a basketball, but he never played on a championship team.
It doesn't make any difference what they go on to, it's a great feeling to see them doing well. I'm just as proud of the ministers and the doctors and the attorneys and the businessmen n every one of 'em.
You can do more good by being good than any other way.
Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.
I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He's amazing - obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He's really something.
If I am through learning, I am through.
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.'