About John Wooden: John Robert Wooden is even more remarkable and impressive because to this day no other coach or school has won the tournament more than two consecutive years.
I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.
I've been blessed in so many ways.
I don't believe in praying to win.
I don't believe in fate.
I seldom was ever off my seat on the bench during the game.
Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high sc...
I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.
If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.
In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.
It is most difficult in my mind, to seperate success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Be quick, but don't hurry.
Don’t be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is not to act when action is needed.
