John Wooden Quotes

Joy makes the longest journey too short.

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece.

The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.” –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

there are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

Its what you learn when you know it all that counts

Competitiveness must be focused exclusively on the process of what you are doing rather than the result of that effort (the so-called winning or losing).

Succeeding is performing at your best when your best is required

The worst things you can do for the ones you love are the things they could and should do for themselves” — and

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

He told me that he always insisted on two things above all else in his players: That they were always trying to improve and always willing to put the team above themselves. If they weren’t willing to do those things, he didn’t want them at UCLA.

happier. The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience — even if you risk angering or hurting that person — you are offering the most valuable gift of all.

So often we fail to acknowledge what we have because we’re so concerned about what we want.

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are".