John Wooden on Land
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“Our land is everything to us… I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.”
–John Wooden
John Wooden on Character
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“What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.”
–John Wooden
John Wooden on Faith
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“Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.”
–John Wooden
John Wooden on Winning
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“Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.”
–John Wooden
John Wooden on Role Models
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“Young people need models, not critics.”
–John Wooden
John Wooden on Rights and Feelings
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“Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.”
–John Wooden
Jack Gallo on Yelling
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“Yelling is like eating steak through a straw. It gets you all red in the face but, in the end, you get no steak.”
–Jack Gallo (”Just Shoot Me”)
John Wooden on Mistakes
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“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.”
–John Wooden
Learned Hand on Taxes
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“Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: Taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.”
–Honorable Learned Hand, U.S. Appeals Court Judge, Helvering v. Gregory, 69 F.2d 809 (1934)
John Wooden on Coaching
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“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”
–John Wooden
John Wooden on Conditioning
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“You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors: how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.”
–John Wooden
John Wooden on Character
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“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”
–John Wooden
Jack Gallo on The Grapes of Wrath
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“Sometimes the sweetest wine is squeezed from the grapes of wrath.”
–Jack Gallo (”Just Shoot Me”)
Albert Einstein on Ethics
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“Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
–Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
John Wooden on Faith
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“There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.”
–John Wooden
“First Sale” Scene from Boiler Room (2000)
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Vin Diesel closing a sale in Boiler Room (2000):
George Bernard Shaw on Pigs
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“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
–George Bernard Shaw
Ronald Reagan on Trees
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“A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?”
–Ronald Reagan
Gordon Gecko’s “Greed Is Good” Speech
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The speech that won Michael Douglas the Academy Award for Best Actor (from 1987’s Wall Street):
Alec Baldwin’s “I Am God” Soliloquy
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Alec Baldwin’s “I Am God” soliloquy from Malice (1993):
