John Wooden shares a mindset that we all need to adopt every day. "Yesterday is gone. That'll never change. Tomorrow is yet to be." "How can you affect tomorrow? By today. That's the only possible way." "I tried to get each player to make each day his masterpiece." Don't get caught up in the past or worry about the future - make today your masterpiece. Then he shared advice he gave to certain players: "You've gotta put the past out. Good or bad, it's past - it'll never change. The only way you can affect the future is what you do today." You can't change yesterday. You can't control tomorrow. You only have today. Then he recited a poem by Vivian Larimore that he loved: "I've shut the door on yesterday, its sorrows and mistakes. I've locked within its gloomy walls past failures and heartaches." "And now I throw the key away to seek another room and furnish it with hopes and smiles and every springtime bloom." "I've shut the door on yesterday and thrown the key away. Tomorrow holds no fears for me, for I have found today." "Today is the day that counts. It's today." The present moment is the only place where you can truly make a difference. Don't carry yesterday's failures or worry about the unknown. Focus on what you can control.