John Wooden Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

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

  John Wooden

  Life, Basketball, Teamwork

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.88, B&H Publishing Group

• Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

  John Wooden

  Friendship, Art, Book

• A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.

  John Wooden

  Strong, Giving, Leader

  John Wooden (2005). “Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion”, p.29, McGraw Hill Professional

• Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Dream, Perseverance

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.141, B&H Publishing Group

• We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.

  John Wooden

  Love, Motivational, Giving

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.126, Regal

• What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Player, Practice

• While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor-and to be mentored!-constantly.Everything in the world has been passed down. Every piece of knowledge is something that has been shared by someone else. If you understand it as I do, mentoring becomes your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. It is why you get up every day-to teach and be taught.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Mentor, Legacy

• The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you treat everyone the same. You must give each individual the treatment that you feel he earns and deserves, recognizing at all times that you're imperfect and you're going to be incorrect oftentimes in your judgment.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Feelings, Coaching

• Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame. If an officer on your team suggested something and it worked well, give them credit. If it doesn't work well, you take the blame because you made the decision.

  John Wooden

  Team, Giving, Decision

  Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

• 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

• Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn't mean treating everyone alike.

  John Wooden

  Mean, People, Giving

• 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

• Being true to ourselves doesn't make us people of integrity. Charles Manson was true to himself, and as a result, he rightly is spending the rest of his life in prison. Ultimately, being true to our Creator gives us the purest form of integrity.

  John Wooden

  Integrity, Giving, People

• Too often, we just ask for help instead of really giving thanks for the many things that we've had and are so helpful to us that we did nothing to deserve, so we should give thanks each and every day and pray for guidance in helping us along the proper path.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Path, Helping

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I like to give opinions, not suggestions

  John Wooden

  Giving, Sportsmanship, Suggestions

• One of my constant reminders was, "End practice on a happy note." I wanted the boys to want to come out to practice, and I wanted them to get a certain amount of pleasure out of basketball. It's a game. It should be fun. So I always tried to counterbalance any criticism in practice with a bit of praise. I wanted my players to feel that the worst punishment I could give them was to deny them the privilege of practicing. If they did not want to practice, I did not want them there.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Fun, Boys

  "They Call Me Coach".

• Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings everyday.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Blessing, Ucla

• Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Giving

• Nothing can give you greater joy than doing something for another.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Joy, Greater

• 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

• Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Way, Cooperation

• 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

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