Student Success Statement:John Wooden

"What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player."
-John Wooden

  This quote means that what you do doesn't matter but who you are does. Usually what you do is how you think people will judge you. In reality it's who you are as a person that you will be judged. If your a good person people will want to go up to you and be your friend. If your a bad person people won't want to involve you in anything.

  There are many examples of what this quote is trying to say. For example, if you aren't so great at basketball but you are seen that you are a kind person. You wouldn't be judged on your skills but how you act. Another example would be you being an amazing basketball player but you are seen as a rude person. Again you aren't going to be judged on you skills but how you act. That is basically what this quote is trying to say.