John Wooden exemplifies the master teacher who always put the student or athlete first. In fact, he believed that students don't care what you know until they know that you care. One of the most important coaching lessons he gave us was the use of life lesson slogans. Coach Wooden's most telling slogans serve as important relationship building tools. Some of these follow:
- A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
- 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.
- Be prepared and be honest.
- 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.
- Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
- Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
- If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
- It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
- It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
- It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- Never mistake activity for achievement.
- 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.
- Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
- What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.
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