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John Wooden Quotes - Page 9

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

Let’s face it, we’re all imperfect and we’re going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and

Let’s face it, we’re all imperfect and we’re going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.

Mistake, Fall, Adversity

John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

In 1948, I began coaching basketball at UCLA. Each hour of practice we worked very hard. Each day we worked very hard. Each week we worked very hard. Each season we worked very hard. Four fourteen years we worked very hard and didn't win a national championship. However, a national championship was won in the fifteenth year. Another in the sixteenth. And eight more in the following ten years.

Basketball, Winning, Eight

Too often, we just ask for help instead of really giving thanks for the many things that we've had and are so helpful to us that we did nothing to deserve, so we should give thanks each and every day and pray for guidance in helping us along the proper path.

Giving, Path, Helping

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The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.

Basketball, Running, Team

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Life, Adversity, Men

John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.162, B&H Publishing Group

We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.

Details, Lasts, Unexpected

Listen if you want to be heard

Motivational, Want, Heard

John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

Love, Family, Education

The choice you make, makes you.

Choices, Choices You Make

John Wooden (2011). “Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.43, McGraw-Hill Professional

Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?

Sports, Good Things, Having Patience

If you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you have control.

Concerned, Regard, Involved

The leader has to command the respect of all those under his supervision - and he must be open to those under his supervision. Effective leadership means having a lot of people working toward a common goal. And when you have that with no one caring who gets the credit, you're going to accomplish a lot. If you have those just wanting the credit for themselves, you're not going to get as much accomplished.

Mean, Caring, People

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Love is the most powerful four letter word.

Powerful, Love Is, Four

Class is an intangible quality which commands, rather than demands, the respect of others.

Intangible Quality, Class, Demand

Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.

Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

You must believe in what you're doing, that what you're doing is the proper thing, the right thing. And you must have faith that things will end up as they should, which doesn't mean as you want them to, but things will work out as they should.

Believe, Mean, Work Out

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The true leader isn't really looking for leadership. He's trying to set an example and be in the proper way to get the most productive results and don't realize it. When the followers get something done, if the leader has been what he should, they'll feel like they did it, not him. That's the way it should be.

Leader, Trying, Way

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One of my constant reminders was, "End practice on a happy note." I wanted the boys to want to come out to practice, and I wanted them to get a certain amount of pleasure out of basketball. It's a game. It should be fun. So I always tried to counterbalance any criticism in practice with a bit of praise. I wanted my players to feel that the worst punishment I could give them was to deny them the privilege of practicing. If they did not want to practice, I did not want them there.

Sports, Fun, Boys

"They Call Me Coach".

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

Action, Needed, Failure To Act

I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as an English teacher until my last as UCLA basketball teacher/coach, I was determined to make the effort to become the best teacher I could possibly be, not for my sake, but for all those who were placed under my supervision.

Basketball, Teacher, Believe

No building is better than its structural foundation, and no man (woman) is better than his (her) mental foundation. When I prepared my original Success Pyramid years ago, I put industriousness and enthusiasm as the two cornerstones with LOYALTY right in the middle of the pyramid - Loyalty to yourself and to all those dependent upon you.

Loyalty, Athlete, Men

I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.

Basketball, Winning, Player

Make every day your masterpiece.

Inspirational, Basketball, Nba

Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.

Basketball, Nba, Giving

Forget favors given; remember those received.

Favors, Remember, Forget

John Wooden (1997). “Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court”, p.201, McGraw Hill Professional

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