John Wooden

5 Motivational Quotes from John Wooden

Here are five of my favorite motivational quotes from John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach who ruled the NCAA tournament like no one else in history… “The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move! … The individual who is mistake-free is also [...]

Do You Have Enough Confidence?

Self-confidence means believing you have what it takes to achieve your goal and it’s a quality that is essential to success. “I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.” — Mike Ditka “Self-confidence is the first step toward success. If you believe it, you can achieve it.” – Tommy Lasorda [...]

If you want to change your life, you must first change the way you think. As so many of the world’s top coaches and achievers have taught, your attitude towards life—what you think of yourself and the world around you—will eventually create the conditions you experience. And the attitude you choose to adopt is completely [...]

John Wooden’s 8 Rules for Success

Legendary basketball coach John Wooden had an insatiable desire to learn and he took the study of success very seriously. He spent several years coming up with what he felt was a proper definition of success. Based on his experiences as an athlete, coach, and teacher, Wooden defined success this way: “Success is peace of [...]

The Wooden Way: Make Each Day Your Masterpiece

No coach in history has influenced more leaders than John Wooden. The winner of ten national championships as UCLA’s basketball coach, Wooden’s success philosophy goes beyond sports and leaders from all walks of life have embraced the lessons he taught. At the center of Wooden’s philosophy is one important rule that the legendary coach repeated [...]

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