John Wooden Quotes About Championships

Quotes about: Championships

• We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.

  John Wooden

  Winning, Best Effort, Giving

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

• I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Judging

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.12, McGraw-Hill Professional

• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

  John Wooden

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

• When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Ucla, Practice

• In 1948, I began coaching basketball at UCLA. Each hour of practice we worked very hard. Each day we worked very hard. Each week we worked very hard. Each season we worked very hard. Four fourteen years we worked very hard and didn't win a national championship. However, a national championship was won in the fifteenth year. Another in the sixteenth. And eight more in the following ten years.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Winning, Eight

• Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Winning, Journey

• The best players don't win championships. The best team players win championships.

  John Wooden

  Team, Winning, Player

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