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


What John Wooden meant by this quote is that your self being is way more important than being a basketball player meaning that your perspective on viewing things and acting upon them is more important because people view you by your actions. What matters is who you are as a person not what you are. One example of this quote is when someone does something nice this shows who you are like personality wise.