John Wooden Quotes

A Successful Journey Is the Destination

Your family is what counts, and you must always remember that as you get caught up in your own professional responsibilities.

Whether in basketball or business, you must be able to perform all aspects of your job, not just part of it. You must be able to “get open” and “shoot.” One without the other makes you a partial performer, someone who can be replaced because your skills are incomplete.

Ability is a poor man's wealth

Make Every Day Your Masterpiece!

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday,

You and I must accept some accountability for future bloodshed if each and every day we don’t do something in our own way to alleviate prejudice in ourselves or others.

When you blame others you are trying to excuse yourself. When you make excuses you can’t properly evaluate yourself. Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

Some of those under your supervision will catch on quickly, others not. Understanding that patience is an integral part of good teaching and effective leadership allowed me to accept the varying speeds at which people learn and to accommodate, within reason, those differences. Patience became an asset for me rather than a liability. I came to understand that good things take time.

there would be times when we disagreed but there would never be times when we had to be disagreeable.

Commend, Don’t Criticize

Condition Your Team to Love the Struggle.

never dreamed about winning a national championship. It happened before I even thought it was possible. What I was dreaming about each year, if you want to call it that, was trying to produce the best basketball team we could be.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” It

Never mistake mere activity for accomplishment