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Title  Search all 400+ Wooden's Wisdom Issues: Find articles about a specific topic: All TopicsAccountability Adapt Adaptability Adversity Aggressiveness Alertness Ambition Attitude Balance Baseball Basketball Caring Challenge Character Coach Coachable Coaching Collaborate Collaboration Communication Competition Competitive Competitive Greatness Condition Confidence Conflict Cooperation Core Values Courage Criticism Culture Culture,soccer Deep Purpose Definition Of Enthusiasm Definition Of Industriousness Definition Of Success Desire Detail Determination Develop Discipline Enthusiasm Ethics Example Failure Faith Faith,the Coach Family Fear Fear Of Failure Fearless Feedback Fight Focus Football Forgiveness Freedom Friendship Fun Giving Goal Setting Goals Gratitude Grit Growth Gymnastics Habits Happiness Hard Hard Work Hard Work,industriousness,coaching,soccer Helping Hiring Honesty How To Use The Pyramid Humility Inclusive Industriousness Influence Initiative Integity Integrity Intentional Intentness Leadership Learn Love Loyalty Manage Maturity Medalist Article By Coach Media Mental Mental Toughness Mental Toughness,football Mentor Mentoring Mholder Minded Morals Motivation Network Open Organization Parenting Passion Performance Perseverance Persistence Perspective Philosophy Planning Playing Time Poise Positive Positive Attitude Preparation Process Purpose Pyramid Pyramid Implementation Pyramid Of Success Recruiting Reliability Reliabity Resilience Respect Results Role Model Rugby Rules Self Control Self-control Self-control, Self-control,motivation Selfishness Service Seven Point Creed Sincerity Sincerity,coaching,motivation Sincerity,football Skill Social Media Success Teach Teaching Teaching,coaching Team Team Building Team Chemistry Team Spirit Teammate Teamwork The Coach Time Time Management Toughness Trust Two Sets Of Three Unity Unselfishness Values Why Win Winning Work Worry Wrestling Find an article about any John Wooden quote: All QuotesA good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles A good place to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm. A great deal of talent may be lost for the want of a little courage. A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. A person can make mistakes but they are not a failure until they blame others. A person who trusts people will make fewer mistakes than a person who distrusts them. A philosopher is a person who meets all events, whether favorable or unfavorable, with calmness and composure A setback is a setup for a comeback. Ability is a poor mans wealth. Ability may get you to the top but it takes character to keep you there Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. Adaptability Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. Alertness All change may not be progress, but all progress is the result of change. Although it may not be possible to determine what happens to you, you should control how you react and respond Ambition Bad times can make you bitter or better. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Be clever not fancy Be more concerned with - loving than being loved, giving than receiving, being a friend than having a friend. Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You'll be surprised at the results.(Part Two) Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You'll be surprised at the results.(Part One) Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation as your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. Be most interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way. Be quick but do not hurry. Be slow to criticize and quick to commend. Be True to Yourself Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details. coaching, poise Competitive Greatness Condition Confidence Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. Content makes poor men rich, discontent makes rich men poor. Cooperation Discipline Yourself and Others Wont Need To Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life. Do not permit what you cannot do to interfere with what you can do. Don't count the days, make the day count. Don't let yesterday take up too much of today. Don't Mistake Activity for Achievement Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all. Don't Whine, Don't Complain, Don't Make Excuses Dont let your means keep you from your dreams. Drink Deeply From Good Books Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present. Earn the right to be proud and confident. Enthusiasm Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn't mean treating everyone alike. Faith Fight Forget the favors you have given--remember those received. Friendship Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting. God grant me the courage to change the things I can change, the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference.(Part Two) Grant me the courage to change the things I can change, the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference. (Part One) Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; shallow minds discuss people. He who is really kind can never be unhappy; He who is really wise can never be confused; He who is really brave is never afraid. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy. Help Others Honesty Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more. Hustle makes up for many a mistake I am not what I want to be, not what I ought to be, and not what I am going to be but I am thankful I am not what I used to be. I will get ready and then, perhaps, my chance will come. If I am through learning, I am through. If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier. If we magnified our blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier. If you always tell the truth, you will not have to remember what you said. If you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing. (Part One) If you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing. (Part Two) If you are going nowhere, you'll get there. If you do not have the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? If you keep too busy learning the tricks of the trade, you may never learn the trade. If you lose self-control everything will fail. If you sacrifice principle trying to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one. Industriousness: Careful Planning Industriousness: Hard Work Initiative Integrity Intentness It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one is concerned who gets the credit. It is better to trust and occasionally be disappointed than to mistrust and be miserable all the time. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself. It is the little details that make things work. It is what you learn after you know it all that counts. It takes a lot of little things to make one big thing. It's not what you think you are, but what you think. Keep a cheerful, optimistic disposition. Think positively rather than negatively. Sincere optimism builds confidence and courage. Keep courtesy and consideration of others foremost in your mind at home and away. Kindness in words creates confidence, Kindness in thinking creates profoundness, Kindness in giving creates love. Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. Knowledge + preparation + attention to detail = skill Learn as if you were going to live forever, live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn to disagree without being disagreeable. Let me give so much time to the improvement of myself that I shall have no time to criticize others. Let us overcome the angry man with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity, the liar with truth. Listen If You Want To Be Heard. Loyalty Loyalty like respect must be given before you get it. Make Each Day Your Masterpiece Make friendship a fine art. Make sure the team members know they're working with you, not for you Material things are not gifts but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself. More often than we e'er suspect, the lives of others we affect. Most anyone can handle adversity, but to test a person's character, give them power. Much of what we see depends on what we are seeking. Never Lie, Never Cheat, Never Steal Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them. Never try for a laugh at another's expense. Never try to be better than someone else; but always be learning from others. No human life is ever really finished as long as there is someone to remember it. Not all change is progress, but there is no progress without change. Nothing can give you greater joy than doing something for another. Nothing will work unless you do. Patience People are usually as happy as they make their mind up to be. Physical strength is measured by what one can carry, spiritual strength by what one can bear. Poise Prejudice may be being down on what we are not up on. Pride is a better motivator then fear. Real happiness begins where selfishness ends. Real happiness comes from the things that can not be taken away from you. Real wealth comes to the fellow who learns that he is paid best for the things he does for nothing. Reliability Resourcefulness Respect every opponent, but fear none. Revenge is the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. Self-Control Sincerity Skill Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. 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. Talent is God given, be humble; fame is man given, be thankful; conceit is self given, be careful. Your feedback is welcome! Team Spirit The ability to see the good in others and the bad in ourselves is perfect vision. The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. The best way to improve the team is to improve our self. The Coach as a Leader - Part 1 (Art of Leadership) The Coach as a Leader - Part 2 (Pyramid & Leadership) The Coach as a Leader - Part 3 (Consistency) The Coach as a Leader - Part 4 (Alertness + Self-Control = Leadership Listening) The Coach as a Leader - Part 5 (Creating Initiative) The Coach As A Leader - Part 6 (Character Fuels Intentness) The Coach As A Leader - Part 7 (The Leader Has a Humble Spirit) The Coach as a Leader - Part 8 (Be A Mentor) The Coach as a Leader - Part 9 (The Leader has a sense of humor and a humble spirit and can laugh at her/himself.)himself.) The Coach as a Teacher - Part 1 (Teach by example - You haven't taught until they have learned.) The Coach as a Teacher - Part 2 (The coach - player (teacher - student) relationship) The Coach as a Teacher - Part 3 (When success turns your head, you face failure.) The Coach as a Teacher - Part 4 (How To Avoid Grievances) The Coach as a Teacher - Part 5 (Just Three Rules) The Coach as a Teacher - Part 6 (Rules vs. Suggestions: You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.) The future may be when you wish you had done what you are not doing now.( Part Two) The future may be when you wish you had done what you are not doing now.(Part One) The future may be when you wish you had done what you are not doing now.(Part Three) The goal is to satisfy not everyone else's expectations, but your own. The great secret of life is to cultivate the ability to appreciate the things you have, not compare them. The greatest conquest of man is the conquering of himself The happiest moments in life come from making someone else happy. The harder you work, the more luck you will have. The important thing in life is not what belongs to us, but what we belong to. The Leader has faith in people. He believes in them, trusts them, and thus draws out the best in them.) The Leader is a servant. The Leader keeps his eyes on high goals. (Making the world a better place to live by helping others.) The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team The man who is not afraid of failure seldom has to face it. The more concerned we become over the things we can't control, the less we will do with the things we can control. The most important word in our language is love and the second most important word is balance. (Part One: Love) The most important word in our language is love and the second most important word is balance. (Part Two: Balance) The people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything. The person who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success. The only real failure is the failure to act when action is required. The person who usually does what he pleases is seldom pleased with what he does. The possibility we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. - Abraham Lincoln The Pyramid of Success The smallest good deed is better than the best intention. The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack. The time to make friends is before you need them The true athlete should have character, not be a character. The uphill climb is slow, but the downhill road is fast. The worst thing about new books is they keep us from reading the old ones The worst thing you can do for those you love is to do the things they could and should do for themselves. There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things man craves the most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace - are always attained by giving them to someone else. There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience. There is no substitute for hard work and careful planning. There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, there can hardly be room for any of us to talk about the rest of us. Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out. Those who have never suffered adversity, never experience the true meaning of success. Time spent getting even would be better spent trying to get ahead. Treat all people with dignity and respect Valid self-analysis means improvement. We can do more good by being good than any other way What is right is more important than who is right. When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks. When success turns your head, you face failure. Wisdom, like the wind, blows on unused, except for those who know the art of sailing. You are honored for giving, not for receiving. You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving You can not antagonize and influence at the same time. You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone without a thought of repayment. You cannot truly be judged by what others say about you, but you can be judged by what you say about others You destroy an enemy when you make a friend of him. You discipline those under your supervision to correct, to help, to improve � not to punish. You handle things. You work with people. You have success within; it is up to you to bring it out You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will be in torment if you do not trust enough. You meet the same people on the way up as you meet on the way down You must have discipline. You discipline those under your supervision to correct, to help, to improve - not to punish. You must listen to others if you want others to listen to you. You'll never know a thing that you didn't learn from someone else Young people need good models more than they need critics Young people need models, not critics. Find articles with lessons from other coaches: All CoachesMorgan Wootten High School Basketball (Best Winning Pct. .869) Bill Russell NBA Basketball (11 NBA Titles) (2 as Player-Coach) Pat Riley NBA Basketball (5 NBA Titles) Gregg Popovich NBA Basketball (5 NBA Titles) Phil Jackson NBA Basketball (9 NBA Titles) Red Auerbach NBA Basketball (9 NBA Titles) Dawn Staley NCAA Basketball (1 National Championship) Nolan Richardson NCAA Basketball (1 National Championship) Ward "Piggy" Lambert NCAA Basketball (1 National Chmps.) (John Wooden's Coach) Geno Auriemma NCAA Basketball (11 National Chmps.) Jay Wright NCAA Basketball (2 National Chmps.) Denny Crum NCAA Basketball (2 National Chmps.) Dean Smith NCAA Basketball (2 National Chmps.) C. Vivian Stringer NCAA Basketball (3 Different Schools Final Four) Roy Williams NCAA Basketball (3 National Chmps.) John McClendon NCAA Basketball (3 National Chmps.) Mike Krzyzewski NCAA Basketball (5 National Chmps.) Pat Summitt NCAA Basketball (8 National Chmps.) John Thompson NCAA Basketball (National Champion) Pete Newell NCAA Basketball (National NIT Olympic Chmps.) Bud Wilkinson NCAA Football (3 National Chmps.) Tom Osborne NCAA Football (3 National Chmps.) Woody Hayes NCAA Football (5 National Chmps.) Bear Bryant NCAA Football (6 National Chmps.) Nick Saban NCAA Football (7 National Chmps.) Eddie Robinson NCAA Football (9 National Chmps.) Suzanne Yoculan NCAA Gymnastics (10 National Chmps.) Valorie Kondos Field NCAA Gymnastics (7 National Chmps.) Jack Clark NCAA Rugby (28 National Chmps.) Anson Dorrance NCAA Soccer (22 National Chmps.) Dan Gable NCAA Wrestling (15 National Chmps.) Tony Dungy NFL (Super Bowl Champion) Don Shula NFL Football (2 Super Bowl Chmps.) Tom Landry NFL Football (2 Super Bowl Chmps.) Joe Gibbs NFL Football (3 Super Bowl Chmps.) Bill Walsh NFL Football (3 Super Bowl Chmps.) Chuck Noll NFL Football (4 Super Bowl Chmps.) Vince Lombardi NFL Football (5 NFL Titles. 2 Super Bowl Chmps.) George Halas NFL Football (6 NFL Titles) Bill Belichick NFL Football (6 Super Bowl Chmps.) Tony La Russa Prof. Baseball (3 World Series Titles) Sparky Anderson Prof. Baseball (3 World Series Titles) Walter Alston Prof. Baseball (4 World Series Titles) Joe Torre Prof. Baseball (4 World Series Titles) Connie Mack Prof. Baseball (5 World Series Titles) Casey Stengel Prof. Baseball (7 World Series Titles) Graham Henry Prof. Rugby (World Cup Chmp.)

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492	Issue 492 - "Four Ways We Spend Our Time."
491	Issue 491 - "Prioritize Your Planning Properly"
490	Issue 490 - "Are other people as enthusiastic about you as you are about yourself?"
489	Issue 489 - "Improve Your Capability" (Coach Wooden’s "APPP")
488	Issue 488 - "Statistics are a good resource but they don’t always measure performance" (Coach Wooden 10 for 10)
487	Issue 487 - "Worry Free and Properly Focused Performance" (Coach Wooden 10 for 10)
486	Issue 486 - "Worry Free Performance" (Coach Wooden 10 for 10)
485	Issue 485 - "Trust Allows You To Teach" (Dawn Staley Part Two)
484	Issue 484 - 'A Beacon of Hope" (Dawn Staley Part One))
483	Issue 483 - "Choose Faith not Fear" (C. Vivian Stringer Part Nine)
482	Issue 482 - Five Levels of Listening (Part Two)
481	Issue 481 - The Five Levels of Listening (Part One)
480	Issue 480 - "A Great Teacher Tells You Why." (C. Vivian Stringer Part Eight)
479	Issue 479 - "How To Bring Out The Best In Others." (C. Vivian Stringer Part Seven)
478	Issue 478 - "Change Stubbornness to Determination." (C. Vivian Stringer Part Six)
477	Issue 477 - "Love and Accountably Are Great Teammates." (C. Vivian Stringer Part Five)
476	Issue 476 - "The first test of somebody’s potential is how they handle adversity." (C. Vivian Stringer Part Four)
475	Issue 475 - "Some Things Are More Important Than Winning." (C. Vivian Stringer Part Three)
474	Issue 474 - "Great Teamwork Requires Humility." (C. Vivian Stringer Part Two)
473	Issue 473 - "Can't Is Not A Word In My Vocabulary." (C. Vivian Stringer Part One)
472	Issue 472 - "There is Much Wisdom in History."
471	Issue 471 - "Take the Best, Leave the Rest, Be Original." (Nolan Richardson Part Five)
470	Issue 470 - "Good Character Creates Good Instinct." (Nolan Richardson Part Four)
469	Issue 469 - "Our Actions Towards The Least Fortunate Define Our Integrity." (Nolan Richardson Part Three)
468	Issue 468 - "There are people who pave roads and others who walk on them." (Nolan Richardson Part Two)
467	Issue 467 - "Keep Knocking." (Nolan Richardson Part One)
466	Issue 466 - "Be direct but keep your dignity." (John McClendon Part Eight)
465	Issue 465 - "Mastery Not Winning Is The Goal." (John McClendon Part Seven)
464	Issue 464 - "Worry is a good deal harder than work." (John Wooden)
463	Issue 463 - "Lasting Change Requires Cooperation. Cooperation Requires Integrity." (John McClendon Part Six)
462	Issue 462 - "Small Steps Forward From Every No = A Big Yes" (John McClendon Part Five)
461	Issue 461 - "The Requirements For Successful Innovation" (John McClendon Part Four)
460	Issue 460 - "A Role Model For Players, Students and Fans" (John McClendon Part Three)
459	Issue 459 - "Change what you cannot accept." (John McClendon Part Two)
458	Issue 458: "Character + Intelligence + Persistence = Unstoppable" (John McClendon Part One)
457	Issue 457 - "We Ego or Me Ego" (Bill Russell Part 2)
456	Issue 456 - "Curiosity: A Cornerstone of Commitment" (Bill Russell)
455	Issue 455 - "Belief + Action = Integrity" (John Thompson)
454	Issue 454 - "A Great Role Model" (Tony Dungy Part One)
453	Issue 453 - "Invest your time, don't spend it." (Nick Saban Part Seven)
452	Issue 452 - "Competitive Character" (Nick Saban Part Six)
451	Issue 451 - "The Right Example" (Nick Saban Part Five)
450	Issue 450 - "What To Change; What Not To Change" (Nick Saban Part Four)
449	Issue 449 - "My Greatest Influence" (Nick Saban Part Three)
448	Issue 448 - "A Different Approach" (Nick Saban Part Two)
447	Issue 447 - "The Process" (Nick Saban Part One)
446	Issue 446 - "Culture Necessities" (Anson Dorrance Part Fifteen)
445	Issue 445 - "The Difference between Happiness and Fun" (Anson Dorrance Part Fourteen)
444	Issue 444 - "Who's in your audience?" (Anson Dorrance Part Thirteen)
443	Issue 443 - "Complete Communication" (Anson Dorrance Part Twelve)

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