"What you are as person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player."   John wooden, the wizard of westwood, was an extremely successful college basketball coach who won 12 total national trophies, the players he coached were fit, physically unstoppable, and downright unbeatable, but all that aside coach wooden said this very inspirational quote: " What you are as person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player." so no matter how in shape his athletes were his real lesson to his players was to be a good person.