John Wooden Quotes

If you play bad, you can win the games, but you have to play good and get the three points.

I took Hedo (Turkoglu) in the first game and Rashard (Lewis) hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.

Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

You cannot lose games in the NFL, and still win

I think sometimes, you have to pick your spots about when a game gets intense or when the game's outcome is pivoting in that moment.

Most one run games are lost, not won.

When you have experienced players, you don't tremble when it comes to playing in a hostile atmosphere or under pressure.

In an ideal world, you knock the runs off and win the game.

I could lose every Old Firm game I go into and still win the league.

You've got to win close games in the NFL.

Obviously, when you drop a ball early in the game, it could be worse. You can go on to drop many more balls or stuff like that.

Nine times out of 10, if you win the game, it starts with the turnover battle.

The team that wins makes minimum mistakes, and the one which loses, that one makes more mistakes than the other team.

The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.

The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

At the end of the day, if we don't win that game, we're going home, anyway, so what does it matter. I just wanted to be available, and it ended up to the point where I could help out tonight.

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

I will never forget my first game for England at the World Cup, It was against Turkey... no I mean Tunisia.

To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.