John Wooden Quotes About Winning

Quotes about: Winning

• Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

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

• 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

• The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Running, Team

• Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

  John Wooden

  Success, Eye, Winning

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.164, B&H Publishing Group

• Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Winning, Player

• I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Winning, Player

• 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

• Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

  John Wooden

  Teaching, Learning, Winning

• If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

  John Wooden

  Winning, Different, Littles

  "Legendary basketball coach Wooden dies", www.cnn.com. June 4, 2010.

• The team with the most talent usually wins.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Team, Winning

• You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game, and you can win when you're outscored.

  John Wooden

  Motivation, Inspiration, Winning

• I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Running, Passion

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

• Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Team, Winning

• In 1948, I began coaching basketball at UCLA. Each hour of practice we worked very hard. Each day we worked very hard. Each week we worked very hard. Each season we worked very hard. Four fourteen years we worked very hard and didn't win a national championship. However, a national championship was won in the fifteenth year. Another in the sixteenth. And eight more in the following ten years.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Winning, Eight

• A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Father, Winning

• No matter how you total success in the coaching profession it all comes down to a single factor - talent. There may be a hundred great coaches of whom you have never heard in basketball, football, or any sport who will probably never receive the acclaim they deserve simply because they have not been blessed with the talent. Although not every coach can win consistently with talent, no coach can win without it.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Sports, Football

• It is difficult for young players to learn - because of the great emphasis on records - but, ideally, the joy and frustration of sport should come from the performance itself, not the score. While he is playing, the worst thing a player can think about in terms of concentration - and therefore of success - is losing. The next worst is winning.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Frustration, Winning

• I don't believe in praying to win.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Winning, Praying

  "John Wooden: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 2000.

• To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

  John Wooden

  Character, Winning, Talent

• Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Winning, Journey

• Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Winning, Games

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

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Team, Winning

• Too many people look on outscoring someone as winning, I never tried to get that across to my players.

  John Wooden

  Winning, Player, People

  Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

• Success may result in winning, but winning does not necessarily mean you are a success.

  John Wooden

  Mean, Winning, Doe

  John Wooden, Steve Jamison (2007). “The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership”, p.16, McGraw Hill Professional

• My bench never heard me mention winning. My whole emphasis was for each one of my players to try to learn to execute the fundamentals to the best of their ability. Not to try to be better than somebody else, but to learn from others, and never cease trying to be the best they could be; that's what I emphasized more than anything else.

  John Wooden

  Winning, Player, Trying

  Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

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