Quotes By John Wooden

Never mistake activity for achievement.

I've been blessed in so many ways.

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

If I am through learning, I am through.

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Never lie, never cheat, never steal.

When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

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.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

I don't believe in fate.

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.