John Wooden Quotes
303 John Wooden Quotes
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Ability may get you to the top, but character keeps you there: mental, moral, and physical.
John Wooden
Be concerned with your preparation, not theirs; your execution, not theirs; your effort and desire, not theirs. Don’t worry about them. Let them worry about you.
John Wooden
All we’ve worked so hard to accomplish on the court today can be torn down quickly, in a matter of minutes, if you make the wrong choices between now and our next practice.
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There is a choice you have to make, in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.
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What a leader learns after having learned it all counts most of all.
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Push yourself to keep learning or you will stay as close to the bottom as to the top.
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The star of your team is the team.
The star of the team is the team.
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“We” supersedes “me.”
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Unselfish team play and team spirit are two of the foremost essentials for our success.
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Just be yourself. Don’t be rattled by events, whether good or bad.
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Have respect for, without fear of, every opponent, and confidence without cockiness in regard to yourself.
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You must earn the right to be confident, the kind of confidence that comes from proper preparation.
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The strongest steel is well-founded self-belief. It is earned, not given.
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Every opponent is to be respected; no opponent is to be feared if you have prepared properly.
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A goal beyond victory, a standard above winning.
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Performing at your best when your best is needed; a real love for the hard battle.
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
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Personal greatness is not determined by the size of the job, but by the size of the effort that one puts into the job. This applies to everyone on your team.
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Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.
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When you’ve done your best, you may call yourself a success.
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Success may result in winning, but winning does not necessarily make you a success. Success, as I define it, is harder to achieve.
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If I did my best I believed in my heart that I was a success. Whether our team won a championship or not had little to do with my final reckoning of my success.
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Treat all people with dignity and respect.
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Character— doing the right thing—is fundamental to successful leadership.
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Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the result.
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Nobody on this team gets left behind.
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Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you.
You’ll be surprised at the result.
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Each member of your team has the potential for personal greatness; a leader’s job is to teach them how to do it.
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An effective leader is very good at listening. It’s difficult to listen when you are talking.
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If you let your emotions take over, you will be outplayed.
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Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker.
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If you let your emotions take control, you have lost control. You are vulnerable.
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A leader defined by intensity is a stronger leader. A leader ruled by emotions is weak, the team vulnerable.
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Be sure you acknowledge and give credit to a teammate who hits you with a scoring pass or for any fine play he may make.
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Have one team, not starters and substitutes. No one feels good being a “substitute.”
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Acknowledge your teammate.
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Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
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Minor details, like pennies, add up. A good banker isn’t careless with pennies; a good
leader isn’t careless with details.
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Activity to produce real results must be organized and executed meticulously. Otherwise, it’s no different from children running around the playground at recess.
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If you do not have the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?
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