When Coach Wooden noticed that a player wasn’t giving 100 percent in practice, he would take that person aside and say,
I know you think you can make up tomorrow for what you don’t do today, but that is impossible. If you are giving 50 percent today, you can’t give 150 percent tomorrow! You can never give more than 100 percent.
— John Wooden
Source: Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership (Center Street, October 7, 2014), 510.
Originally posted September 3, 2015.