John Wooden Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.160, B&H Publishing Group
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  Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

• It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Book, Teaching

• Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teacher

• 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

• The coach is first of all a teacher.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Firsts, Coaches

• If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing

  John Wooden

  Sports, Teacher, Coaches

• I'm glad I was a teacher.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Glad

• Not everyone is equipped to be a leader, but in a sense, everyone is a leader to someone, even though you're not equipped. I think parents are a leader to youngsters, teacher are leaders, coaches are leaders, businessmen are leaders.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Thinking, Leader

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Since the most important responsibility of a coach in regard to the actual playing of the game is to teach his players properly and effectively to execute the various fundamentals of the game, he is first of all a teacher.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Responsibility, Player

• Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Leader, Firsts

  Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

• The coach must never forget that he is, first of all, a teacher. He must come (be present), see (diagnose), and conquer (correct). He must continuously be exploring for ways to improve himself in order that he may improve others and welcome every person and everything that maybe helpful to him.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Order, May

• When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who do not have any teaching background. A coach is nothing more than a teacher. I used to encourage anyone who wanted to coach to get a degree in teaching so they could apply those principles to athletics.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Teacher, Teaching

• The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Squad, Important

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

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