Quotes from John Wooden
If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.
- John Wooden
Failure is not Fatal, but Failure to CHANGE can be.
- John Wooden
Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Measure yourself by...what you have accomplished with your ability
- John Wooden
To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.
- John Wooden
Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.
- John Wooden
Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.
- John Wooden
Make each day a masterpiece.
- John Wooden
Talent will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
- John Wooden
A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.
- John Wooden
If I am through learning, I am through.
- John Wooden
Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort? That's what matters. The rest of it just gets in the way.
- John Wooden