John Wooden Quotes About Being The Best

Quotes about: Being The Best

• Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Preparation, Trying

• First be the best and then be first

  John Wooden

  Firsts, Being The Best

• Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Struggle, Fighting

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

  John Wooden

  Trying, Being The Best, Cease

• We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Country, Team

• You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.

  John Wooden

  Trying, Being The Best, Should

  Interview on "Charlie Rose Show", archive.org. June 14, 2000.

• My bench never heard me mention winning. My whole emphasis was for each one of my players to try to learn to execute the fundamentals to the best of their ability. Not to try to be better than somebody else, but to learn from others, and never cease trying to be the best they could be; that's what I emphasized more than anything else.

  John Wooden

  Winning, Player, Trying

  Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

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