12 December 2020 John Wooden Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
3 December 2020 John Wooden 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.
3 December 2020 John Wooden Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
3 December 2020 John Wooden Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
3 December 2020 John Wooden 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.
3 December 2020 John Wooden Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
3 December 2020 John Wooden Friendship is two-sided. It isn’t a friend just because someone’s doing something nice for you. That’s a nice person. There’s friendship when you do for each other. It’s like marriage – it’s two-sided.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 John Wooden Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
3 December 2020 John Wooden I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
3 December 2020 John Wooden There’s as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said – he’d rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
3 December 2020 John Wooden We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
3 December 2020 John Wooden Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
3 December 2020 John Wooden I’m not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I’m going to say I’m opposed to war. But I’m also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
3 December 2020 John Wooden I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
3 December 2020 John Wooden My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I’m still around.
3 December 2020 John Wooden Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
3 December 2020 John Wooden I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn’t try to run their lives.
3 December 2020 John Wooden If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
3 December 2020 John Wooden I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
3 December 2020 John Wooden I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
