John Wooden

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

If I am through learning, I am through.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.