The basketball team had a losing season, the only one in Wooden’s entire career.The following year, John and Nellie settled in South Bend, Indiana, where he taught English and coached the basketball team of South Bend Central High School. Coach John Wooden’s humble approach to success is unique amongst high achievers.
The key to success is do the best you can with what you’ve got. I’m far from perfect, but I was blessed to a degree that many others never had. I don’t know why but, when we met, it was just love at first sight. Wooden, who had shown a gift for the game from grade school days, soon became a star player on his high school team. I think most do, not all, no. Whether you did really or not, you like to feel, maybe I helped them a little. You’re not going to change anything. Certainly, they understand that they are there because of their athletic ability, speaking of college. That makes me very proud.John Wooden: Lawrence Schidler was my math teacher, and he was very strict, but he made us concentrate. I saw a youngster become an admiral in the Navy. I want to concentrate on my own and try to prepare them for each eventuality. In all his years as coach, John Wooden prohibited his players from any use of profanity, and consistently avoided it himself. That’s hard, particularly the first when you decide who the 12 of the 15 are going to be. And, the fact that they’re interested, that should never upset a coach. And then, the other: enthusiasm. "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." It’s a game of action. There were times I didn’t like my own children, but it never had anything to do with my love for them. Take advantage of every day. They can follow the ball. In 11 years of coaching high school basketball, Wooden’s teams won 218 games, losing only 42. We used the same thing we’d been using for years and it seemed to work pretty well. They may seem inconsequential, but I think they’re important. They worked their way through, and either majored or minored in English, every one of them. So I decided that I would stay. By being industrious, by being enthusiastic, and so these others. I’ve been asked, “Do athletics build character?” And my answer has been consistent. Anything anyone can do to help it, even if it’s just a little, that’s good. He’s quick., he’s intelligent, he’s unselfish and he can do all things well.I’ve had many fans while I was coaching, say to me now, “Of course, I don’t know anything about basketball, but…” And then, they’d start telling you what you’re doing wrong, or why aren’t you doing this, or why aren’t you doing that.
I think that’s the custom of always wearing them a size too large. I say, “Go get the ball.” I want to get the ball. You’re working at it every day.
Fortunately it didn’t, but it could have. There were no problems at all. And, that’s what I’m looking for, and then I’m trying to incorporate that in making it into a team game.It is such a team game. It won’t be from the things you say. People feel that when we lost at Notre Dame after we’d won 88 consecutive games, that must have been a tremendous let-down, and it wasn’t at all. As an athlete in college, there were hardly any black athletes that I played against. It doesn’t make a difference what it is.
A Japanese kamikaze plane struck the ship Wooden was to travel on, killing the officer who had taken his place.After military service, Wooden, like many other teachers he knew, was not re-hired at his old job. The Lord gave me some natural things. Basketball is game of quick movement: stop, start, turn, change of direction, change of pace. Never fighting yourself.Mental-Moral-Physical. It’s getting the wrinkles out of your socks so you won’t get blisters. By his own account, it was love at first sight, and the two teenagers decided to marry as soon as John finished college.John Wooden entered Purdue University in Indiana to study civil engineering, but became an English major instead. After three years, we were more settled, more acclimated.Remember, I came from the farm, the country, and Los Angeles was frightening to me, definitely frightening. Now, an Alcindor doesn’t need to be loosened up the same way that a Mike Warren does. He wasn’t a starter. People say, “How about losing that game in the Astro Dome? The old record was 60 in a row. In college basketball, he earned a reputation as a fearless player of dazzling speed. You must truly enjoy what you are doing.Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. We had a seven-point lead in the first overtime and lost. He died peacefully in Los Angeles at the age of 99. We had a better year.
We played home games in as many nine different places.Purdue came up with a very fine offer — a lot more money and better conditions in every way, and I was tempted. We do not all have the same opportunities. Because there are a lot of us, and if everyone would help just a little, that could be a whole lot. My teams got to the National Championship ten times, the National Championship game, and we happened to win every one of those that we got there. If you’re looking for the shortcut, the trick, the easy way, you can get by, perhaps, for a while, but you won’t be strengthening the talents that lie within you. Their farm had neither running water nor electricity and money was often in short supply. Dad also developed the idea within me and my brothers that we don’t look back. Of course, players like Alcindor made it a little easier, too.John Wooden: You made an interesting statement there, in one word.
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