John Wooden Quotes
- Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.
- Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker.
- Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.
- Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only…
- When I am through learning, I am through.
- I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.
- Be quick without hurrying.
- I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.
- Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.
- The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.
- Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.
- 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.
- We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.
- Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again.…
- Do passing drills that come from your offense.
- The team is the star, never an individual player.
- The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use…
- It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.
- Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.
- Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.