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I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don’t criticize a teammate. Never be late.

John Wooden

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

Important Past Spend Time
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
JOHN WOODEN

Character Concern Reputation Thinking
Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.
JOHN WOODEN

Life Live Prevention
Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
JOHN WOODEN

Care Difference Gesture Motivational Opportunity Seek
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

Friendship Marriage Nice Person
Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
JOHN WOODEN

Coach Player Practice Teaching
A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.
JOHN WOODEN

Acceptance Basketball Blame Credit Leadership Weak
We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
JOHN WOODEN

Basketball Change Life Progress
Well, if you’re true to yourself you’re going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN

Inspirational True Yourself
Young people need models, not critics.
JOHN WOODEN

Criticism Model Need One Liner People Young
A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
JOHN WOODEN

Admit Forget Learning Mistake Recognize Value
I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don’t criticize a teammate. Never be late.
JOHN WOODEN

Criticism Late Leadersship Player Rule
What is right is more important than who is right.
JOHN WOODEN

Important Justice Right
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
JOHN WOODEN

Capable Motivational Success
Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.
JOHN WOODEN

Believe Excuse Friendship never
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
JOHN WOODEN

Admire Adversity Himself Man

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