John Wooden Quotes

Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportunity to teach. When you teach others, you teach yourself.

People don't understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn't wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.

Saba: "You want this one to guide you?" Leia: "If you would consider it." Saba: "This one?" Leia: "Yes. I want someone who will challenge me in unexpected ways. I want someone who will teach me what I don't know.

If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Some of the guys that can teach you the best never really made it just because they couldn't execute it themselves, but they can tell everybody else the reasons why everybody else made it and show you how. It's just hard to find those people.

There's always something that you can learn and something you can teach.

If you teach someone your craft, while you're teaching them, you're going to learn because you're going to get better at teaching, which is going to make you better at whatever you're doing.

I feel like I always learn from somebody who can do something better than I can.

I had the chance to learn from some really talented people who have taught me a lot.

The guest artists pass on not only their experiences but also the pitfalls.

I've learned from the greatest people, and I've got wonderful things to pass on.

You see guys that have been in the league for a long time and have taken that opportunity to not only make their game better but to make the people around them better. And to help them know things that maybe you wish you had known.

I had a lot of veteran guys who taught me things.

Ask yourself, how can I learn from the people around me. Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven't yet found a way to learn from them.

You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger.

Yonder showed me the ropes about life, showed me the ropes about baseball life; he showed me a lot that I couldn't have learned by myself.

That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.

I try to take a couple of young guys under my wing and tell them what I've learned, because you can't teach nobody if you don't know anything.

When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

God puts mentors in your path. They may not look like you, sound like you, or be what you expect. But they always know more that you.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

Cultivate those who can teach you.