John Wooden

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

John Wooden

Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.

John Wooden

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

John Wooden

Consideration for others brings many things.

John Wooden

Constantly be aware and observing. Always seek to improve yourself and the team.

John Wooden

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort? That’s what matters. The rest of it just gets in the way.

John Wooden

Discipline of others isn’t punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.

John Wooden

Don’t be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is failure to act when action is needed. Use the information that you’ve acquired in the past through the experiences you’ve had and act with self-control – but act.

John Wooden

Don’t get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

John Wooden

Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

John Wooden