Quotes By John Wooden

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

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.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

I've been blessed in so many ways.

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

If I am through learning, I am through.

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Never lie, never cheat, never steal.

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

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

When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

I don't believe in fate.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

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

I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.

Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

You can do more good by being good than any other way.