John Wooden

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

This quote means that you yourself as a person is important than being a basketball player because you as a person is good. No matter what you are a basketball player you should and always be known for your characteristics of what is good and better from you as person than a basketball player because then people would just know you for being that instead of how good of a person you are in life.