Quotes about Development

We shed skins in life, to keep living.

And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

The good ones develop give. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

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

If I am through learning, I am through.

I am not what I ought to be, Not what I want to be, Not what I am going to be, But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be. It

Always try to be the very best that you can be. Learn from others, yes. But don't just try to be better than they are.

when coaches or parents make consistency their foundation, everyone around them becomes more comfortable and everyone around them has a greater opportunity to grow.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. -John Wooden

And that, in my opinion, is the first goal of leadership—namely, getting the very best out of the people in your organization, whether they have talent to spare or are spare on talent.

I believe effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We are in the education business. Whether in class or on the court, my job was the same: to effectively teach those under my supervision how they could perform to the best of their ability in ways that best served the goals of our team. I believe the same is true for productive leaders in any organization.