John Wooden Quotes

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

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

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.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

I will say that my father loved to teach and was a very gifted teacher. He probably would have been an excellent coach and trainer.

Clancy had taught me well.

The coach is first of all a teacher.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

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

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.

I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

When one teaches, two learn.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.