Write Of Center http://writeofcenter.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:00:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en John Wooden on Land "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 http://writeofcenter.com/2009/11/01/john-wooden-on-land/ John Wooden on Character "What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player." --John Wooden http://writeofcenter.com/2009/10/01/john-wooden-on-character-3/ John Wooden on Faith "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 http://writeofcenter.com/2009/09/01/john-wooden-on-faith-2/ John Wooden on Winning "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 http://writeofcenter.com/2009/08/01/john-wooden-on-winning/ John Wooden on Role Models "Young people need models, not critics." --John Wooden http://writeofcenter.com/2009/07/01/john-wooden-on-role-models/ John Wooden on Rights and Feelings "Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights." --John Wooden http://writeofcenter.com/2009/06/01/john-wooden-on-rights-and-feelings/ Jack Gallo on Yelling "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") http://writeofcenter.com/2009/06/01/jack-gallo-on-yelling/ John Wooden on Mistakes "If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes." --John Wooden http://writeofcenter.com/2009/05/01/john-wooden-on-mistakes/ Learned Hand on Taxes "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 ... http://writeofcenter.com/2009/04/15/learned-hand-on-taxes/ John Wooden on Coaching "A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment." --John Wooden http://writeofcenter.com/2009/04/01/john-wooden-on-coaching/