John Wooden Quotes

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

Coming to a team like the Spurs, you're automatically going to learn how to play the game the right way.

My dad always taught me the fundamentals of the game: dribble, pass, shoot. So I never relied heavily on any one thing until I got to college, when I was just adjusting to the team.

It makes you a better player when you're around better competition. If you pay attention, you can learn something.

I learn from teaching. Having to break things down and explain them makes me a better dancer.

Every step of the way I think you learn something that makes you a better player, and all those lessons really come out when it matters the most in a championship.

There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.

Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of a sudden, you play yourself and then you say, my goodness, I don't need a teacher. I'm my own teacher. Then I can react to what I'm doing immediately. It really improves.

See this pebble?" "Yes." "Take it." Eragon did and stared at the unremarkable lump. It was dull black, smooth, and as large as the end of his thumb. There were countless stones like it on the trail. "This is your training." Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around. Now stop talking or we'll never get anywhere.

Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals

Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.