"What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player"

John Wooden

     I think this quote means that you are way more important as a person than if you were a athlete or an teacher. It doesn't matter if you are a artist or anything like that it just matters who you are and what you do in life as a person. For example if you are the best football player on your team that doesn't mean anything. The only thing that matters is the person you are. People might not care if you won 17 trophies in a row they are going to see what kind of person you really are in the inside besides being a basketball player. The important thing is how you act and how you treat other people in life instead of just being a athlete and playing all day. Even though you are focused on your athletic career you sometimes have to set that aside and be a person that people will actually want to hangout with. for example you could be mean and aggressive on the field or court. But as a person its is way more important.