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Hardship brings people closer together if you share it.
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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The true leader isn't really looking for leadership. He's trying to set an example and be in the proper way to get the most productive results and don't realize it. When the followers get something done, if the leader has been what he should, they'll feel like they did it, not him. That's the way it should be.
John Wooden
The more concerned we become over the things we can't control, the less we will do with the things we can control
John Wooden
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
John Wooden
It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.
John Wooden
The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.
John Wooden
Champions are brilliant at the basics.
John Wooden
Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
John Wooden
People ask me if I'd permit fancy things, like dunks. Well, if they did dunk, it was with no fancy flair. No behind-the-back dribbles or passes unless necessary. If it was for show, you were on the bench.
John Wooden
There is no substitute for hard work. If you're looking for the easy way, if you're looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.
John Wooden
Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.
John Wooden
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
John Wooden
What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience-even if you risk angering or hurting that person-you are offering the most valuable gift of all.
John Wooden
I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.
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
Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.
John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
John Wooden
A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.
John Wooden
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
Losing does not make you a failure it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure
John Wooden
The best players don't win championships. The best team players win championships.
John Wooden
