Quotes by Players

Don't mistake activity with achievement.
John Wooden
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Chuck Noll
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it bein your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, fromreligion.
John Wooden
A leader who is through learning is through.
John Wooden
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
John Wooden
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.
John Wooden
a lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
Bill Shankly
Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.
John Wooden
Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly
Don’t be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is not to act when action is needed.
John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden
When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.
John Wooden
I just thought you might like to know that I passed a kennel on the way to the game and your mother is all right.
Ralph Houk
Be quick, but don't hurry.
John Wooden
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John Wooden
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
John Wooden
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
John Wooden
Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?
John William Heisman
On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they'renot going to forget we visited them.
Knute Rockne
Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.
John Wooden
How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?
John Wooden
Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.
John Wooden
Before you can win a game you have to not lose it.
Chuck Noll
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
John Wooden
‎"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.
Knute Rockne
There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.
John Wooden
You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John Wooden
Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people.
John Wooden
Let's win this one for the Gipper.
Knute Rockne
It's hard to sleep when you have thirty two million quids worth of stolen jewellery hidden under the mattress.
Peter Houston
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
Knute Rockne
If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win
Bill Shankly
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose man enjoyment is winning.
Chuck Noll
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
John Wooden
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne
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