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

I think that what Wooden was trying to say when he said this, is that people should be good people above anything else.  It doesn't matter if you are the best of the best at basketball if you are a bad person.  This quote means that we need to know who we are and understand ourselves in order to be able to be healthy and to do things that make us happy.  I think it is important that people are good people no matter what life throws at them, whether it be good things or bad things.  It is important to stay humble and to stay good and to let situations that we do not like, change us.  Wooden here is saying that it is more important to know who YOU are, than to be a "basketball player", or anything else for that matter.  At the end of the day, our heart and our character is what stays with us forever, not prizes or 1st place trophies.