John Wooden

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

— 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

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

— John Wooden

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”

— John Wooden

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

— 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

“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

“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.”

— John Wooden

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

— 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

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

— John Wooden

“We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.”

— 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

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

— 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

“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

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

— John Wooden

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

— 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

“Passion is momentary love is enduring.”

— John Wooden