Zitate von John Wooden
John Wooden
Geburtstag: 14. Oktober 1910
Todesdatum: 4. Juni 2010
John Robert Wooden war ein US-amerikanischer Basketballspieler und -trainer. Als Cheftrainer der University of California, Los Angeles-Basketballmannschaft der UCLA Bruins gewann er zehn NCAA Division I Basketball Championships, davon sieben in Serie von 1967 bis 1973. Er war mit Abstand der erfolgreichste Trainer der Wettbewerbsgeschichte, kein anderer Trainer kann mehr als fünf Titelgewinne vorweisen. Während seiner aktiven Zeit erhielt er den Spitznamen „Indiana Rubber Man“, später wurde er in Anlehnung an den Zauberer von Oz „Wizard of Westwood“ genannt. Wikipedia
Zitate John Wooden
Variante: 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.
„Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.“
Variante: Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000)
Quelle: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
„The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.“
Quelle: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
„Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.“
Wooden only repeated a common aphorism (e.g. Interview on Charlie Rose, reported by Bill Walton), which was already in circulation as early as the 1920s, when he was a youth. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=bks%3A1%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3AJan+1_2+1900%2Ccd_max%3ADec+31_2+1930&q=%22fail+to+prepare%22+%22prepare+to+fail%22
Misattributed
Quelle: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
„Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.“
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)
Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000)
„You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes“
Quelle: Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
„The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.“
Quelle: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
„Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.“
Quelle: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
„If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.“
Quelle: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
„There is nothing stronger than gentleness.“
Quelle: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
