A biography for John Woodenhasn’t been written yet.
“No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.”
“My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.”
“I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.”
“Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
“Ability is a poor man's wealth.”
“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”
“When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.”
“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.”
“I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.”
“I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.”
“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.”
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
“It isn't what you do, but how you do it.”
“I'm glad I was a teacher.”
“It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it bein your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, fromreligion.”
“All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.”
“How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?”
“If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.”