John Wooden

“No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.”

— John Wooden

“I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.”

— 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

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

— John Wooden

“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”

— 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

“If I am through learning, I am through.”

— John Wooden

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

— John Wooden

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

— John Wooden

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

— John Wooden

“I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.”

— John Wooden

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

— John Wooden

“There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.”

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

— 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

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

— John Wooden

“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.”

— John Wooden

“I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.”

— 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