John Wooden Quotes

Experience is a really wonderful thing, and in a way we've been fortunate to have had so many ups and downs in our career, and a lot of struggles and a lot of sacrifices. But again, that's just an athlete's story.

I like to do things that are step by step. It takes experience to get to the next level. And you have to put your heart into it.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!

I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.

Golf's not an easy game. You keep working at it and, sooner or later, something good will happen.

'Victory Lap,' even the title. It's the accumulation of trial and error; that's what I represent; trial and error.

I believe success is delayed failure.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Do as many gigs as the good Lord sends. That's the only true training.

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'

The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.

When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.

I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave.