John Wooden Coaching Quotations

As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.

I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.

Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.

Do passing drills that come from your offense.

Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

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

You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.

Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it.

It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.

Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.

Be quick without hurrying.

Everything we know, we learned from someone else!

Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.

Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!

You haven't taught until they've learned.

The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you treat everyone the same. You must give each individual the treatment that you feel he earns and deserves, recognizing at all times that you're imperfect and you're going to be incorrect oftentimes in your judgment.