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John Wooden Quotes - Page 10

All Quotes Accomplishment Achievement Adversity Art Basketball Being The Best Blame Caring Challenges Change Character Choices Coaches Coaching Criticism Defeat Determination Discipline Effort Energy Enthusiasm Failing Feelings Fighting Fun Giving Graduation Gratitude Hard Work Heart Helping Others Inspiration Inspirational Integrity Journey Joy Kindness Leadership Life Listening Losing Love Loyalty Lying Making Mistakes Mentoring Motivation Motivational Opportunity Passion Past Perfection Perseverance Planning Positive Positivity Preparation Progress Purpose Repetition Reputation Responsibility Risk Role Models Running Sacrifice Selfishness Sports Sportsmanship Success Talent Teaching Team Teamwork Today Understanding Winning Wisdom Worry Wrestling

Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

Adversity, Stronger, Way

Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure

Doe, Blame Someone, Losing

Each of us must make the effort to contribute to the best of our ability according to our individual talents. And then we put all the individual talents together for the highest good of the group. Understanding that the good of the group comes first is fundamental to being a highly productive member of a team.

Team, Effort, Understanding

Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.

Yesterday Is Gone, Yesterday, Gone

As a leader, you must be filled with energy and eagerness, joy and love for what you do. If you lack enthusiasm for your job, you cannot perform to the best of your ability. Industriousness is unattainable without Enthusiasm.

Jobs, Joy, Leader

John Wooden (2005). “Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion”, p.22, McGraw Hill Professional

Drink deeply from good books.

Basketball, Book, Ucla

John Wooden, Jay Carty (2009). “Coach Wooden One-On-One”, p.43, Revell

You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

Hard Work, Matter, Enjoy

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

Everything we know, we learned from someone else!

Coaching, Mentoring, Knows

Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.

Kindness, Trying, Helping

You can't make good decisions that are going to be meaningful, productive, when you lose control, and you have to maintain mental control, emotional control and to be able to perform physically up to your own particular level of competency; you have to keep your emotions under control.

Meaningful, Emotional, Decision

Source: www.pbs.org

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Valleys, Life Is, Lows

Scott Howard's Installation Speech as President of Valley Beth Shalom, www.vbs.org. September 08, 2016.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it wont be successful.

Sports, Successful, Thinking

Decisions are more apt to be accepted when you've listened to suggestions first. I wanted them to see the reason behind what I asked of them, not to do things just because I said so.

Sports, Decision, Suggestions

Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.

Strong, Anchors, Foundation

Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

Confidence comes from being prepared.

Inspirational, Basketball, Teamwork

John Wooden (2005). “Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion”, p.2, McGraw Hill Professional

I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.

Trying, Favors, Things To Do

John Wooden, Jay Carty (2009). “Coach Wooden One-On-One”, p.45, Revell

Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

Positivity, Decision, Failure To Act

When I am through learning, I am through.

Perseverance

The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in marriage, at your job, in the community, for your country. Make the effort to contribute in whatever way you can. You may do it materially or with time, ideas, or work. Making the effort to contribute is what counts. The effort is what counts in everything.

Basketball, Country, Jobs

John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.28, McGraw-Hill Professional

Apply yourself everyday to just becoming a little bit better.

Everyday, Littles, Becoming

Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker.

Basketball, Stronger, Intensity

While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor-and to be mentored!-constantly.Everything in the world has been passed down. Every piece of knowledge is something that has been shared by someone else. If you understand it as I do, mentoring becomes your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. It is why you get up every day-to teach and be taught.

Giving, Mentor, Legacy

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game, and you can win when you're outscored.

Motivation, Inspiration, Winning

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

Mistake, Team, Winning

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