You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes

Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.

Too many people look on outscoring someone as winning, I never tried to get that across to my players.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'