John Wooden

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

— John Wooden

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

— John Wooden

“I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.”

— John Wooden

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”

— John Wooden

“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.”

— John Wooden

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

— John Wooden

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”

— John Wooden

“My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.”

— John Wooden

“Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.”

— John Wooden

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

— John Wooden

“I'm glad I was a teacher.”

— John Wooden

“I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.”

— John Wooden

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”

— John Wooden

“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.”

— John Wooden

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

— John Wooden

“Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.”

— John Wooden

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

— John Wooden

“There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.”

— John Wooden

“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.”

— John Wooden

“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.”

— John Wooden