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
Too often we get distracted by what is outside of our control. You can't do anything about yesterday. The door to the past has been shut and the key thrown away. You can do nothing about tomorrow. It is yet to come. However, tomorrow is in large part determined by what you do today. So make today a masterpiece. You have control over that.
You can’t do anything about yesterday, and the only way to improve tomorrow is by what you do right now.
Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.
Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out
Quickness under control is the most valuable physical aspect of any sport, ... I wanted more strengthening of the long, supple muscles. I wasn't just looking for strength.
Better than any person my age has a right to,
Ben has really embraced the tradition of the program, and growing up in Southern California, he understands what it really means. To see him teaching those same principles to his players just gives me a lot of pride.
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others thinkyou are.
Bill, I know what the other schools say. If you come to UCLA, I can't promise you'll make our team,
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.
I would never have a player come close to taking that many shots in a game. I don't ever recall seeing a player who could do so much with a basketball, but he never played on a championship team.
It doesn't make any difference what they go on to, it's a great feeling to see them doing well. I'm just as proud of the ministers and the doctors and the attorneys and the businessmen n every one of 'em.