Tag Archives: John Wooden

How You Play Matters

This post is from a series of life lessons published in the “Be a Baller” booklet designed for players in a Baller Basketball league. With a win-at-all-costs mentality that has saturated all levels of sports competition, I proposed the following lesson. Does how you play the game of basketball, your character, matter? What should your [...]

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Defining Success in Athletics

In the booklet, Be A Baller, John Wooden influenced many of its pages. The first life lesson is on the subject of defining success. How do you define success in athletics? What does success look like? John Wooden, 10-time NCAA Champion and one of the most influential persons in athletics and life, defines success as [...]

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Do Not Look Back // A John Wooden Story

I received an email recently from a Coach Todd James, Dublin, Ireland, outlining a personal encounter with John Wooden a few years ago. Coach James produced a tract entitled, “Meet My Head Coach,” after finishing his high school basketball coaching career, and after feeling called to go to the mission field to tell people about [...]

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Life Lessons // John Wooden

Life Lessons // John Wooden

Here is a photo (average printer and then scanned) of when John Wooden came to speak at my Alma Mater, California Baptist University, I believe, in 2001. Growing up in Southern California and loving the game of basketball, I had heard a lot about John Wooden (All-time great head coach at UCLA, 10 NCAA champions [...]

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