“What Coach Wooden did was so special.”
Pete Carroll
“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”
John Wooden
“Coach [John] Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach [Denny] Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you have for a breakdown.' I think there's a lot of veracity to that.”
Skip Prosser
“Wow. This is a great award. This one just tops them all. Coach Wooden represents everything I've always stood for -- pride, integrity and trust.”
Jay Williams
“Young people need models, not critics”
“You should have gone with coach to the Final Four. He would stop to talk to John Wooden, and he would talk to a fan. And you couldn't tell the difference.”
Joey Meyer
“He could talk with coach Wooden or a fan and you couldn't tell the difference.”
