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“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

John Wooden

“Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before.”

John Wooden

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

John Wooden

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

“Make every day your masterpiece.”

John Wooden

Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000) <br class="br">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.”

John Wooden

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

“It isn't about what you do, but how you do it”

John Wooden

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

John Wooden

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.”

John Wooden

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.”

John Wooden

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.”

John Wooden

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.”

John Wooden

They Call Me Coach (1972)

“I do not have the right, Bill, but I do have the right to say who is going to play on my team and we’re going to miss you.
reported by Bill Walton, about his right to wear his hair long”

John Wooden

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

“Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.”

John Wooden

They Call Me Coach (1972)

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

John Wooden

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”

John Wooden

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

“You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that’s under your control and the other isn’t.
quoting his father”

John Wooden

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.”

John Wooden

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

“Ability is a poor man's wealth. ”

John Wooden

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

John Wooden

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. <br class="br"> Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000)