John Wooden Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• Never mistake activity for achievement.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Basketball, Motivational Sports

  John Wooden (1997). “Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court”, p.8, McGraw Hill Professional

• A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Four, Forget

• Let’s face it, we’re all imperfect and we’re going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Fall, Adversity

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

• You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Blame, Blaming Others

• Promise yourself you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible. Promise to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best in yourself and others. Promise to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Past, Thinking

• If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

  John Wooden

  Life, Positive, Basketball

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

• The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Mistake, Sitting

• It's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Lesson Learned, Lessons

• 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

• IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Ifs

• 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

• Hustle makes up for many a mistake.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Mistake, Hustle

• Don't mistake activity with achievement.

  John Wooden

  Success, Work, Mistake

• When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Done, Ifs

• Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Doe

• The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Team, Winning

• The person who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success. I expected my players to make mistakes, as long as they were mistakes of commission. A mistake of commission happens when you are doing what should be done but don't get the results you want.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Player, Long

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2009). “Coach Wooden One-On-One”, p.155, Revell

• The close games are usually lost, rather than won. What I mean by that is games are mostly won because of the opponent making mistakes during crucial moments.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Mean, Games

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