I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.

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 than what you are as a basketball player.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.

It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally.

Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.

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