John Wooden Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• 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

• Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

  John Wooden

  Art, Goal, Effort

• I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Stress, Player

• I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as an English teacher until my last as UCLA basketball teacher/coach, I was determined to make the effort to become the best teacher I could possibly be, not for my sake, but for all those who were placed under my supervision.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Teacher, Believe

• Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.

  John Wooden

  Effort, Imperfect, Fear Of Failure

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

• Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort

  John Wooden

  Best Effort, Giving, Matter

• Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.

  John Wooden

  Perseverance, Giving, Effort

• Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

  John Wooden

  Achievement, Effort, Important

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.115, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Each of us must make the effort to contribute to the best of our ability according to our individual talents. And then we put all the individual talents together for the highest good of the group. Understanding that the good of the group comes first is fundamental to being a highly productive member of a team.

  John Wooden

  Team, Effort, Understanding

• The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.

  John Wooden

  Effort, Care, Take Care

  John Wooden (2005). “Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion”, p.10, McGraw Hill Professional

• You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do. Are you going to make mistakes? Of course. But it is not failure if you make the full effort.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Heart, Effort

• You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.

  John Wooden

  Effort, May, Made

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

• You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.... Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Worry, People

• Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect to team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, cooperation, determination, industriousness, fight effort, and character.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Loyalty, Determination

• The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in marriage, at your job, in the community, for your country. Make the effort to contribute in whatever way you can. You may do it materially or with time, ideas, or work. Making the effort to contribute is what counts. The effort is what counts in everything.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Country, Jobs

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.28, McGraw-Hill Professional

• Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

  John Wooden

  Effort, Fear Of Failure, Permit

• Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.

  John Wooden

  Focus, Effort, Mountain

• Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Goal, Effort

• Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

  John Wooden

  Effort, Mind, Acquire

  John Wooden (1997). “Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court”, p.201, McGraw Hill Professional

• When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Effort, Loser

  John Wooden (2005). “Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion”, p.9, McGraw Hill Professional

• Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.

  John Wooden

  Best Effort, Strive, Accomplish

  John Wooden, Steve Jamison (2009). “Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for Success: 12 Lessons for Extraordinary Performance and Personal Excellence”, p.8, McGraw Hill Professional

• The Good Lord in his infinite wisdom, did not create us all equal when it comes to size, strength, appearance, or various aptitudes. But success is not being better than someone else, success is the peace of mind that is a direct result of self-satisfacti on in knowing that you gave your best effort to become the best of which you are capable.

  John Wooden

  Self, Best Effort, Knowing

• How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.

  John Wooden

  Running, Winning, Race

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.8, McGraw-Hill Professional

• We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.

  John Wooden

  Integrity, Ambition, Sacrifice

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.94, ReadHowYouWant.com

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