Quotes from John Wooden
Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
- John Wooden
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
- John Wooden
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 have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.
- John Wooden
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
- John Wooden
Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.
- John Wooden
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
- John Wooden
There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
- John Wooden
People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.
- John Wooden
Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.
- John Wooden
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
- John Wooden
Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
- John Wooden
I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.
- John Wooden