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“Being average means you are as close to the bottom as you are to the top.”

Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

“Make every day your masterpiece.”

Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000)
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

“Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.”

Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

“The main ingredient of stardom, is the rest of the team.”

They Call Me Coach (1972)

“Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.”

Variant: Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

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

Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)

“A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself for the group, for the good of the group — that’s teamwork.”

Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000), IBM Linux Commercial: The Prodigy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ozaFbqg00#t=15.3s (2003)

“Young people need models, not critics.”

They Call Me Coach (1972)

“Don’t beat yourself. That’s the worst kind of defeat you’ll ever suffer.
reported by Bill Walton”

Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000)

“You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don’t try to play theirs.
reported by Bill Walton”

Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000)

“The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.”

Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000)

“The four laws of learning are: the first is demonstration of what you want. The second is the criticism of the demonstration.”

The third is the imitation of the correct model, and the fourth is repetition, over and over until it becomes habit where is you don’t think about it.
Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000)