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John Wooden Quotes

These John Wooden quotes showcase the wisdom, intelligence, and winning attitude of the most successful college basketball coach ever. Sharpen your pencils, and take notes.

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  • Best John Wooden Quotes
  • Good John Wooden Quotes
  • Short Sayings from John Wooden
  • On Basketball

Best John Wooden Quotes

  • Never mistake activity for achievement.
  • Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
  • Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
  • The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
  • The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.
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Good John Wooden Quotes

  • Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
  • Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.
  • It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
  • It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
  • Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Short Sayings from John Wooden

  • What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
  • It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
  • You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

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On Basketball

  • Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
  • Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
  • Young people need models, not critics.
  • Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

— Mike O’Halloran

Mike has authored three basketball coaching books and is the editor of Sports Feel Good Stories.

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