I had a relationship with John Wooden. I spoke at his…

John Wooden made a name as a coach but also a life as a mentor.

— Don Yaeger

John Wooden's books are great.

— John Calipari

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

— John Wooden

“Nothing will work unless you do. —John Wooden What”

— Christine Porath

I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.

— Pat Summitt

“True character is what you say and do when no one is looking.” ~John Wooden”

— Orly Wahba

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

— Harold MacMillan

I think we need to not look at sorrow and happiness as opposites that cannot co-exist. They can and do co-exist. I have preached…

— Randy Alcorn

“We are born old enough to die.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at…

— Sherry Turkle

“Funerals and memorial services are something that have to be gotten through. They honor the dead, but they’re for the living.”

— J.A. Jance

I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.

— Charles Saatchi

Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

— Anne Tyler

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

— Robert Byrne

“He hadn't woken a day since my death when the day wasn’t something to get through. But the truth was, the memorial service day…

— Alice Sebold