John Wooden Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.

  John Wooden

  Yesterday Is Gone, Yesterday, Gone

• 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

• Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Thinking, Great Day

• Time lost is time lost. It’s gone forever. Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for what they did not do today. People should always do their best. If they work twice as hard tomorrow, then they should have also worked twice as hard today. That would have been their best.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Should Have, People

• 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

• Make today your master piece.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Pieces, Today

• If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.

  John Wooden

  Would Be, Assistants, Today

• Too often we get distracted by what is outside of our control. You can't do anything about yesterday. The door to the past has been shut and the key thrown away. You can do nothing about tomorrow. It is yet to come.
  
  However, tomorrow is in large part determined by what you do today. So make today a masterpiece. You have control over that.

  John Wooden

  Past, Keys, Doors

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.11, McGraw-Hill Professional

• I always talked to my players about today. It's the only day that matters.

  John Wooden

  Player, Matter, Today

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