John Wooden Life Quotations

Be quick, but don't hurry.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Be prepared and be honest.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

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

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.