John Wooden
John Wooden
John Robert Woodenwas an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood," as head coach at UCLA he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than two in a row. Within this period, his teams won a men's basketball-record 88 consecutive games. Wooden was named national coach of the year six times...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth14 October 1910
CountryUnited States of America
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Decisions are more apt to be accepted when you've listened to suggestions first. I wanted them to see the reason behind what I asked of them, not to do things just because I said so.
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
If you do enough small things right, big things can happen
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.
Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.
As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.