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

This quote by John Wooden means that you can be the best can be the best at something, but if you are a horrible person than it doesn't matter. No body is going to like you because of your personally even if you are the best of the best. Let's say for example you are great at your job, but you always have an attitude, no one is going to let you work with them if you are like that. At the end of the day it doesn't matter what job you had what matters is who you are as a person. Your job isn't going to get you anything besides money and who wants money when you don't have any friends or family to share it with. There is going to come an age when you can't work anymore and all people are going to remember you as will be your personally, so you might as well be an amazing person. You won't be playing basketball forever and when you retire all you will have is the goodness in your heart. If you have no goodness than you will have nothing. You should always remember to be a kind person no matter how successful you might be. This is what John Wooden meant, your accomplished don't mean anything if you are the worst of people.