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- John Wooden: American basketball player and head coach
Quotes 1 till 20 of 47.
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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Don't mistake activity for achievement.
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Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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If you express yourself too much. you're overacting; if you underplay it too much, it can come across as wooden.
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
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A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
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All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
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Be prepared and be honest.
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Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
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Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
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For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.
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I don't believe in praying to win.
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I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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