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July 7, 2021

Name: John Wooden
Born: 10/14/1910
Died: 06/04/2010 (99 years old)

John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball player and head coach at the University of California, Los Angeles. Nicknamed the “Wizard of Westwood,” he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period as head coach at UCLA, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than four in a row in Division I college men’s or women’s basketball. Within this period, his teams won an NCAA men’s basketball record 88 consecutive games. Wooden won the prestigious Henry Iba Award as national coach of the year a record seven times and won the AP award five times. He also won a Helms national championship (which was decided by a poll) at Purdue as a player in 1931–1932.

Birth Place: Hall, Indiana

Death Place: Los Angeles, California

Source: Wikipedia

John Wooden quotes :

Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
John Wooden

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
John Wooden

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John R. Wooden

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
John Wooden

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
John Wooden

The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden

Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
John Wooden

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden

I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
John Wooden

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
John Wooden

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
John Wooden

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
John Wooden

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
John Wooden

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Wooden

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
John Wooden

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
John Wooden

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
John Wooden

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
John Wooden

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
John Wooden

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
John Wooden

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
John Wooden

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
John Wooden

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden

You can do more good by being good than any other way.
John Wooden

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
John Wooden

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
John Wooden

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