Quotes about Effort
To my way of thinking, when you give your total effort—everything you have—the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.
- John Wooden
To my way of thinking, when you give your total effort—everything you have—the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.
- John Wooden
To my way of thinking, when you give your total effort—everything you have—the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.
- John Wooden
If you prepare properly, you may be outscored but you will never lose.
- John Wooden
How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.
- John Wooden
Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.
- John Wooden
I never dreamed about winning a national championship. What I was dreaming about was trying to produce the best basketball team we could be. My thoughts were directed toward preparation, our journey, not the results of the effort. That would simply have shifted my attention to the wrong area, hoping for something out of my control.
- John Wooden
You must define success as making the complete effort to maximize your ability, skills, and potential in whatever circumstances—good or bad—may exist.
- John Wooden
Condition Your Team to Love the Struggle.
- John Wooden
Sometime you can do everything right and still lose. It's all a journey. You do your best, and then you have to let it go. Lots of people preach that, but come crunch time—oops, not so easy to do.
- John Wooden
DON'T MISTAKE ACTIVITY FOR ACHIEVEMENT
- John Wooden
Personal greatness is not determined by the size of the job, but by the size of the effort one puts into the job. This applies to everyone on the team.
- John Wooden