Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wilmot

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

John Woolman

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

John Wooden

Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame. If an officer on your team suggested something and it worked well, give them credit. If it doesn't work well, you take the blame because you made the decision.

John Wooden

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

John Wooden

Not everyone is equipped to be a leader, but in a sense, everyone is a leader to someone, even though you're not equipped. I think parents are a leader to youngsters, teacher are leaders, coaches are leaders, businessmen are leaders.

John Wooden

The team with the most talent usually wins.

John Wooden

You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors / how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

John Wooden

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

John Wooden

The best players don't win championships. The best team players win championships.

John Wooden

You better play together as a team or you sit.

John Wooden

Constantly be aware and observing. Always seek to improve yourself and the team.

John Wooden

Place the team above yourself always.

John Wooden

The best way to improve your team is to improve yourself.

John Wooden

Kindness makes for much better teamwork.

John Wooden

There are little details in everything you do, and if you get away from any one of the little details, you're not teaching the thing as a whole. For it is little things which, together, make the whole. This, I think, is extremely important.

John Wooden

Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.

John Wooden

The coach must never forget that he is, first of all, a teacher. He must come (be present), see (diagnose), and conquer (correct). He must continuously be exploring for ways to improve himself in order that he may improve others and welcome every person and everything that maybe helpful to him.

John Wooden

The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.

John Wooden

Since the most important responsibility of a coach in regard to the actual playing of the game is to teach his players properly and effectively to execute the various fundamentals of the game, he is first of all a teacher.

John Wooden

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

John Wooden

When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.

John Wooden

There are three things an athlete must do. You must be in physical condition ... You must execute properly and quickly the fundamentals ... and you must have eagerness to sacrifice personal interests or glory for the welfare of the team.

John Wooden

I'm glad I was a teacher.

John Wooden

Confidence comes from being prepared.

John Wooden

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

John Wooden

The coach is first of all a teacher.

John Wooden

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

John Wooden

Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.

John Wooden

Each of us must make the effort to contribute to the best of our ability according to our individual talents. And then we put all the individual talents together for the highest good of the group. Understanding that the good of the group comes first is fundamental to being a highly productive member of a team.

John Wooden

Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting, teaching and coaching are the two most important professions in the world.

John Wooden

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that's teamwork.

John Wooden

When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who do not have any teaching background. A coach is nothing more than a teacher. I used to encourage anyone who wanted to coach to get a degree in teaching so they could apply those principles to athletics.

John Ruskin

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.