All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low. John Wooden More Quotes by John Wooden More Quotes From John Wooden What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience-even if you risk angering or hurting that person-you are offering the most valuable gift of all. John Wooden offering hurt believe Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect to team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, cooperation, determination, industriousness, fight effort, and character. John Wooden loyalty determination sports Confidence comes from being prepared. John Wooden basketball teamwork inspirational We can become great in the eyes of others, but we'll never become successful when we compromise our character and show disloyalty toward friends or teammates. The reverse is also true: No individual or team will become great without loyalty. John Wooden team loyalty character It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. John Wooden perseverance basketball sports It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying John Wooden nba basketball thinking Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on. John Wooden masterpiece each-day life-is Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do. John Wooden fighting struggle mistake Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you. John Wooden coaching choices basketball Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that. John Wooden do-the-best can-do inspirational 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. John Wooden nice friendship two I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness. John Wooden ambition goal believe My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around. John Wooden hearing going-away memories Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort John Wooden best-effort matter giving Cervantes said the journey's better than the end. Practices, to me, were the journey. John Wooden ends journey practice You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do. Are you going to make mistakes? Of course. But it is not failure if you make the full effort. John Wooden effort mistake heart Time lost is time lost. It’s gone forever. Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for what they did not do today. People should always do their best. If they work twice as hard tomorrow, then they should have also worked twice as hard today. That would have been their best. John Wooden should-have motivational people The most powerful leadership tool you have is your personal example. John Wooden powerful tools example People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you. John Wooden want believe people Respect a man, and he will do all the more. John Wooden respect inspirational men
