If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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.
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
Never mistake activity for achievement.
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.
Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
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.
Young people need models, not critics.
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
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.
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.
Never lie, never cheat, never steal.
I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.
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.
If I am through learning, I am through.
Earn the right to be proud and confident.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.
We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
