New Seniors

Coach John Wooden of UCLA had some powerful things to say about life, achievement, and character.

“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.”

“Our land is everything to us… I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it – with their lives.”

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.”

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”

“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”

“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

“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?”

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

“Never mistake activity for achievement.”

“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”

“Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out”

“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”

“There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.”

“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”

“It isn’t what you do, but how you do it.”

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”

“It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.”

“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”

“Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.”

“Young people need models, not critics”

“Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.”

“It is what we learn after we know it all that really counts”

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

“I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.”

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”

“You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors / how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.”

“Be prepared and be honest.”

“Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.”

“Ability is a poor man’s wealth.”

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

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