John Wooden Quotes - Page 8

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• You can always do more than you think you can.

  John Wooden

  Thinking, Born To Run

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• Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Strong, Optimistic

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• Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.

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  Pay The Price, Achieve, Significance

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• Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.

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  Outcomes, Good Things, Should

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.137, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

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  Mean, Caring, People

  Source: money.cnn.com

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• You can't make good decisions that are going to be meaningful, productive, when you lose control, and you have to maintain mental control, emotional control and to be able to perform physically up to your own particular level of competency; you have to keep your emotions under control.

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  Meaningful, Emotional, Decision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day

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  Basketball, Practice, Nba

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

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  Love, Family, Education

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• Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

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  Sports, Focus, Development

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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.

  John Wooden

  Leader, Trying, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I am through learning, I am through.

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  Perseverance

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

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  Life, Adversity, Men

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

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• Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.

  John Wooden

  Crime, Lows, Aim

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

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  Player, People, Should

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• Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

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  Important, World, Profession

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.78, Regal

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• Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

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  Character, Important, Traits

  Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

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• 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.

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  Loyalty, Athlete, Men

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

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  Basketball, Running, Team

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• 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.

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  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• The choice you make, makes you.

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  Choices, Choices You Make

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

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• 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.

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  Believe, Mean, Work Out

  Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

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• You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.... Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.

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  Motivational, Worry, People

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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.

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  Sports, Fun, Boys

  "They Call Me Coach".

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• 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.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Teacher, Believe

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• Listen if you want to be heard

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  Motivational, Want, Heard

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

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