In his first year, the basketball team went 6-11; it would be the only losing season of his coaching career.In 1934, Wooden returned to Indiana to teach English and coach basketball, baseball and tennis at South Bend Central High School. And they knew him as the India Rubber Man at Purdue University in West Lafayette, where, as a three-time All-American guard, he delighted fans with his hustle and dives for loose balls. Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court He’ll go to the stack of love letters sitting there on her pillow, untie the yellow ribbon, place the new one on top and tie the ribbon again.

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“I’ve changed nothing, except add pictures of the great-grandchildren she never had a chance to see.”Coach Wooden embraced the unchanging in other areas of his life besides decor. Please try your request again later. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Something went wrong.

Foreword by UCLA Basketball Coach Steve Alford. Be humble.

It was his father that gave him the very first foundation of what would later become the Pyramid of Success.Wooden began playing a rudimentary version of basketball with his three brothers Maurice, Daniel and William—with a homemade basketball and a tomato basket as a hoop in a barn. Coolidge was known for his quiet demeanor, which earned him the nickname "Silent Cal. by Steve Jamison. "Stephen King is a 'New York Times'-bestselling novelist who made his name in the horror and fantasy genres with books like 'Carrie,' 'The Shining' and 'IT.' They knew him as the accomplished athlete nicknamed Pert who helped his Martinsville High School basketball team compete in three state championships. He was survived by his two children, seven grandchildren, and thousands of former players, coaches and friends who took the great teacher's life lessons to heart.We strive for accuracy and fairness. He won We can’t fathom why the article quoted above suddenly became a hot John Wooden’s accomplishments as a basketball coach are almost impossible to summarize because they are so many.

But many people knew him simply as coach. The model takes into account factors including the age of a rating, whether the ratings are from verified purchasers, and factors that establish reviewer trustworthiness. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.If you like Coach Wooden you will definitely like this book - if you love Indiana Basketball, you will love this book

His name is forever identified with the University of California, Los Angeles, where in the 1960s and 1970s he built a basketball dynasty and coached Bruin teams to unprecedented success: ten national championships in twelve years, seven national titles in a row, four perfect seasons, and an eighty-eight-game winning streak all NCAA men's records that remain unrivaled. John was by her bedside. His character — the man he is — almost dwarfs them by His life story and philosophy of living have been recounted in numerous books: Though John Wooden’s career as a coach ended in 1975, his teachings live on. He was assassinated in 1963.Calvin Coolidge was president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Wooden was born in Indiana, and throughout his long life--he died in 2010 just months shy of his hundredth birthday--he remained proud of his Hoosier roots, enough so that he visited his home state whenever possible, maintained contacts with old friends, and always stayed true to the midwestern values instilled in him by his family and teachers.

Full of archival photos, this biography also shows how Wooden s story is inseparable from major events and social currents in the twentieth century, from the Great Depression to civil-rights struggles to campus unrest during the Vietnam War.Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. His upbringing on a farm in Centerton with no electricity and little money instilled a strong work ethic, but Wooden also found time for fun by playing basketball in a barn with his three brothers.In 1925, Wooden and his family moved back to Martinsville, where he met the love of his life, Nellie Riley. To speak only of Wooden s UCLA coaching career is to overlook a significant part of his life story, however.