Famous Quotes

Quotes by John Wooden

• 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.
• Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
• Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
• Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
• 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.
• I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.
• I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
• I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
• I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
• I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
• I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
• I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
• I'm glad I was a teacher.
• I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
• If I am through learning, I am through.
• If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
• If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
• Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
• Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.
• 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.
• My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
• No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
• Passion is momentary love is enduring.
• Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
• Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
• 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.
• 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.
• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
• The most important thing in the world is family and love.
• 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.
• There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
• Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.