John Wooden was basketball coach who coached 10 teams to national championships:
- Even a stubborn mule responds to gentleness
- Role model is the most powerful form of education
- Make each day your masterpiece
- Make friendship a fine art
- Build a shelter against a rainy day
- Work hard everyday. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren’t you doing it now?
- Friendship is two ways. Otherwise, it’s just someone being kind.
- Always find the best way, not necessarily your way
- The journey is better than the inn… I miss the practices.
- Never assume you are going to win
- Don’t live for other’s expectations. Just your own.
- Price to be paid for anything significant
- Be more interested in character, rather than reputation
- Mistakes are for doers
- Real competitors love a tough situation
- Worry about total effort; outcome is byproduct
- Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence
- What you do today will determine what’s going to happen tomorrow, not what you did yesterday
- Mistakes occur when your thinking is tainted with excessive emotion
- I have a great respect for individuals who stand up for those things that they believe. … And the team is going to miss you.
- Content and learning > break it down into small parts to be read and learned
- Success is a peace of mind that is the direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable becoming.
- Success is measured by effort; not the end product. C students who give the effort are successful if they believe they gave that effort.
- Am I not destroying an enemy when I make a friend?
- Respect your opponents, but never fear them.
- Never fear failure. It’s something to learn from.