John Wooden Quotes

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

I think that in any group activity – whether it be business, sports, or family – there has to be leadership or it won’t be successful.

If you do enough small things right, big things can happen

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

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.

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

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

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

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

I’m not afraid to die.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

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.

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

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

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That’s in your power.

Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.