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Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.
John Wooden
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John Wooden
Age: 99 †
Born: 1910
Born: October 14
Died: 2010
Died: May 26
Basketball Coach
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Indiana
John Robert Wooden
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More quotes by John Wooden
There are little details in everything you do, and if you get away from any one of the little details, you're not teaching the thing as a whole. For it is little things which, together, make the whole. This, I think, is extremely important.
John Wooden
Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.
John Wooden
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.
John Wooden
Discipline yourself - so others don't have to.
John Wooden
When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who do not have any teaching background. A coach is nothing more than a teacher. I used to encourage anyone who wanted to coach to get a degree in teaching so they could apply those principles to athletics.
John Wooden
You have not taught until they have learned.
John Wooden
Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.
John Wooden
Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.
John Wooden
Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.
John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden
If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.
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The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast.
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Being your best when your best is needed. The ability to enjoy challenges when things become difficult and to derive exhilaration from them.
John Wooden
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating
John Wooden
Respect a man, and he will do all the more.
John Wooden
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden
It is easier to reach our potential when we learn the value of including others in our quest.
John Wooden
Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.
John Wooden
The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.
John Wooden
The best players don't win championships. The best team players win championships.
John Wooden
