John Wooden Quotes

At our best, we are all teachers

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

The coach is first of all a teacher.

I got an old school coach who's more of a teacher than a coach.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

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

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

Teachers are important in this world.

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

Seek out counsel and be a mentor to people, because then they learn how to be mentors.

Teachers have been some of the most important people in my career.

I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

At our best, we're all teachers

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.

E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.

When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who do not have any teaching background. A coach is nothing more than a teacher. I used to encourage anyone who wanted to coach to get a degree in teaching so they could apply those principles to athletics.

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

I've had influences from many people including the coaches and players I've worked with.

In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.

I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested.