John Wooden Quotes

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

I am a fantastic football manager, not a hard-headed businessman.

A lot of guys are just as fast, just as strong, or just as big as me. But they're not going to be able to think the way I do on the field.

Every time I go out there, I just try to find the weakness of my opponent and then use that to my advantage.

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

I think if you want to be a successful president or a manager of a team, you need to understand what the business is all about because you have to deal with the business side of the game to be able to do what you need to do.

GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.

I have a business-running personality.

I love keeping. I'm in the game all the time. I see angles that I wouldn't normally see, and I feel part of what the captain does.

Good leaders make sense of change in the world... then imparts that insight to the team.

I don't want to put my game plan out there for everybody to see it and read it and teams can scheme. It just doesn't make a lot of sense.

Guardiola knows that the little details that can make us better. He analyses the game instantly - that's his biggest strength, his best characteristic.

My experience in decision-making has shown that patterns are tough to break. In the military, we study an opponent, looking for gaps, flaws, or weaknesses that can be exploited. Successful leaders at all levels in all disciplines conduct this kind of analysis.

I have played plenty of matches where I thought I had left everything on the field and given a game my all, but what I have come to realise since I retired and began coaching - 90 minutes on the field do not compare to life as a manager.

Every manager must be prepared to face every situation.

Teams always have natural leaders on the pitch and natural leaders in footballing terms.

A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.