I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
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What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.John Wooden
His style would not cut it with me. I wanted the socks all pulled up neatly and I didn't permit long hair. He was different. It was a great attraction. He made fancy shots that I wouldn't allow a player to take.
John Wooden
I liked quickness very much and Pete had it. And I really liked his acceptance of the role he had. He didn't get to play nearly as much as he expected to when he came, but he accepted it.
John Wooden
That's good, Bill. I admire people who have strong beliefs and stick by them. I really do. We're going to miss you.
John Wooden
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
John Wooden
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
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