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John Wooden Quotes - Page 5

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Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.

Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.

Character, Thinking, People

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

Character, Important, Traits

Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

Sports, Focus, Development

Perform at your best when your best is required. Your best is required each day.

Each Day

Good values are like a magnet – they attract good people.

People, Magnet, Good Values

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

High Standards, Done, Littles

The four laws of learning are: the first is demonstration of what you want. The second is the criticism of the demonstration. The third is the imitation of the correct model, and the fourth is repetition, over and over until it becomes habit where is you don't think about it.

Thinking, Law, Criticism

Interview on "Charlie Rose Show", archive.org. June 14, 2000.

If I did only what I wanted to do, I would not be obedient to the Creator. Sometimes He wants us to do certain things that we may not feel like doing. When it comes to what God asks of us, we need more than good intentions we need to follow through fully.

Needs, May, Want

The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.

Important, Our Family, Important Things

Source: www.pbs.org

Happiness begins when selfishness ends.

Selfishness, Ends

Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.

Team, Working Very Hard, Opponents

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

Motivational, Mistake, Sitting

You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do. Are you going to make mistakes? Of course. But it is not failure if you make the full effort.

Mistake, Heart, Effort

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

Player, People, Should

You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.

Growth, Each Day, Littles

John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.11, McGraw-Hill Professional

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

Teacher, Book, Teaching

We’re all imperfect and we all have needs. The weak usually do not ask for help, so they stay weak. If we recognize that we are imperfect, we will ask for help and we will pray for the guidance necessary to bring positive results to whatever we are doing.

Motivational, Needs, Helping

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

Sports, People, Excellence

Be more interested in character than reputation

Character, Reputation

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Life, Motivational, Positive

Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

Character, What Matters, May

John Wooden (2011). “Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.13, McGraw-Hill Professional

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

Motivational, Running, Determination

John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.125, ReadHowYouWant.com

I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.

Motivational, Water, Plant

John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.137, ReadHowYouWant.com

We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable.

Needs, Agree To Disagree, Disagreeable

Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.

Open Minded, Observing

John Wooden, Jay Carty (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com

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