Top 36 Coach Wooden Quotes
#1. A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people
John Wooden
#2. I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.
John Wooden
#3. Coach Wooden didn't treat everybody the same; he treated people the way they deserved to be treated.
John Wooden
#4. It's been an unbelievable thing for me to walk Bruin Walk and walk past Coach Wooden's statue, a guy that when I was in elementary school, it's Coach Wooden winning his final championship, his 10th in 12 years.
Steve Alford
#5. The coach must never forget that he is, first of all, a teacher. He must come (be present), see (diagnose), and conquer (correct). He must continuously be exploring for ways to improve himself in order that he may improve others and welcome every person and everything that maybe helpful to him.
John Wooden
#6. Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.
Totaram Sanadhya
#7. I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.
Bill Walton
#8. A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.
John Wooden
#9. Coach Wooden, when he speaks, you listen. I've taken a lot of things from him and his little blue book because to him, it's not just about basketball, it's about life as well.
Kevin Love
#10. I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.
Steve Alford
#11. I never in my wildest dreams thought I would get even one play at Indiana, let alone 25 years later, walk Bruin Walk, walk UCLA where Coach Wooden built his legacy.
Steve Alford
#12. There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.
Rick Reilly
#13. A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.
John Wooden
#14. A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
John Wooden
#15. Since the most important responsibility of a coach in regard to the actual playing of the game is to teach his players properly and effectively to execute the various fundamentals of the game, he is first of all a teacher.
John Wooden
#16. If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.
Thomas Nagel
#17. Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.
John Wooden
#18. James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fun.
Kurt Busch
#20. John Wooden made a name as a coach but also a life as a mentor.
Don Yaeger
#21. I don't think I was a fine game coach I think I was a good practice coach.
John Wooden
#22. I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.
Augusto Pinochet
#23. I don't think I was a fine game coach. I'm trying to be honest. I think I was a good practice coach.
John Wooden
#24. I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I'll tell you what.
Kevin Love
#25. The wheels where enormous wooden affairs, the back ones rounding up over the windows of the coach.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#26. Coach John Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach Denny Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you have for a breakdown.' I think there's a lot of veracity to that.
Skip Prosser
#27. Houses are like boats," Aunt May had sniffed. "They should always keep their original names.
Rachel Hawkins
#28. John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame.
Carol S. Dweck
#29. If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.
John Wooden
#30. Maybe it's the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place.
Cristina Henriquez
#31. The dominating thoughts of my mind ... will transform themselves into physical reality
Napoleon Hill
#33. The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.
John Wooden
#34. I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.
Steve Alford
#35. One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good.
John Wooden
#36. I do my best work under pressure, so I'll nick an artery, and my husband isn't allowed to stanch the bleeding till I've banged out a chapter.
Zadie Smith
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