“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

“What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.”

–John Wooden

“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

“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

“Young people need models, not critics.”

–John Wooden

“Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.”

–John Wooden

“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”)

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.”

–John Wooden

“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)

“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”

–John Wooden