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
I'd like to very much because that's home back there.
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.
I feel that I make an honest living. I take care of my children. I feel that there should be something for me.
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.
It is what we learn after we know it all that really counts
They're going to film it out at my place and show it during the weekend.
When everyone is thinking the same, no one is thinking.
Being selected for the McDonald's All American Games is one of the greatest accomplishments in a basketball player's career. Not only will these youth contribute to the list of the best basketball players of all-time, but they will aid in raising money for a very important cause.
But he passed him a long time ago in losses, You shouldn't pit those two against each other. Both are very good coaches.
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.
It has to be a team concept. It isn't an individual game.
If you get caught up in things over which you have no control, it will adverselyaffect those things over which you have control.
Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
You can do more good by being good than any other way.