Rhonda Ellis

“If a player appeared to be taking it easy in practice, I told him, "Don't think you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?”
― John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
― John Wooden, A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring

“During the toughest challenges in my life I’ve come to most appreciate all Coach Wooden means to me. The things he would say—“Don’t lie, don’t cheat, don’t steal, don’t whine, don’t complain, don’t make excuses; worry about the things you can control, and not the things you can’t”—were endless. Yet there is an appropriate one for every situation. The real”
― John Wooden, A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring

“A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.”
― John Wooden, Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization