John Wooden Quotes

• "It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen."


• "Young people need models, not critics."


• "It is what we learn after we know it all that really counts."


• "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."


• "For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment."


• "The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move."


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


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


• "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."


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


• "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."


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


• "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"Adopted From www.basketball-plays-and-tips.com