"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
— John Wooden
If You Dont Have Time To
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
About this quote
This question appears in Wooden on Leadership (2005) as one of Wooden's foundational challenges to sloppy or hurried work. He believed that rushing through tasks — whether in practice, preparation, or execution — creates compounding errors that take more time to correct than doing the work properly the first time. The principle was central to his practice structure at UCLA, where preparation was treated with the same seriousness as game performance.
Source
Wooden on Leadership, 2005
