John Wooden
John Wooden
John Robert Woodenwas an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood," as head coach at UCLA he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than two in a row. Within this period, his teams won a men's basketball-record 88 consecutive games. Wooden was named national coach of the year six times...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth14 October 1910
CountryUnited States of America
John Wooden quotes about
In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.
It is what we learn after we know it all that really counts
Absolutely, ... One of the things I used to say is there is absolutely no excuse for a good offensive man to not be a good defensive man. You have to be committed to it.
Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Not only was he fundamentally sound, but I liked his attitude. He was competitive, yet a gentleman in his play. I thought they played just wonderful basketball.
Bill, I know what the other schools say. If you come to UCLA, I can't promise you'll make our team,
It doesn't make any difference what they go on to, it's a great feeling to see them doing well. I'm just as proud of the ministers and the doctors and the attorneys and the businessmen n every one of 'em.
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
Pete and Andre McCarter n another high-powered scorer in high school n became the best pair of defensive players I ever had in the backcourt. They embraced those roles for the welfare of the whole team.
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.
It has to be a team concept. It isn't an individual game.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
I never wanted a championship as much as I did that first one, ... After the first one in 1964, the titles seemed to come in droves. I also think I became a better coach after winning that first championship. I still continued to emphasize winning the conference, but I became a better tournament coach, putting less pressure on the players.