778 Quotes by John Wooden

All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can’t control what happens to you, you can control how you react.

Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let’s not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.

Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at time. That’s the only way it happens-and when it happens, it lasts.

You’d like to see your team reasonably happy, but that’s not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles.

You’ve never heard of them- and you never will .

What a leader learns after you’ve learned it all counts most of all.

When we aren’t alert, we miss opportunities to improve ourselves. We should always watch for circumstances or situations that can help or harm us and be eager to learn from these encounters.

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed.

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