I didn’t understand that. I grew up on a farm. I don’t know if any are.

I moved the position within the structure some, but I never changed the cornerstones.

You’ve had a great achievement. That is success.”

I think those things, more than anything else, accounted for my own definition. I had been led to believe by those under whose supervision I was — shown plans for a new building, a place on campus — when my three years was up, that we’d have a nice place to play on campus. It depends on the leadership.” I believe that to be true.

Just try to be the best you can possibly be. Height-wise, they were probably the shortest teams to ever win and, I suspect now, probably the shortest teams that ever will win.

One was the discussion in Mr. Schidler’s class. The conditions in which we had our practices and played our games in comparison of what I’d had, they didn’t compare with what we had in high school back in Indiana. Perhaps it wouldn’t to somebody else, but it does to me. Practically all of them have been reasonably successful, and I don’t necessarily mean materially, but they’ve been successful in whatever profession they’ve chosen. The practical application of wrinkle free socks is the equivalent to Song of Solomon 2:15. That’s my favorite sport. That’s probably the most important thing there is. Put him on the bench.

It was a non-conference game.” We had to win the conference to get in the tournament in those years. Pauley Pavilion is in the beginning stages of being renovated into a new state of the art building, but it had one more testimony that had to be revealed.

They wanted 100 in a row, not 80. My teammates and I sent Coach John Robert Wooden the greatest coach in the history college basketball out as a winner.Over 34 years later he was selected by his peers and the media via As the clock ran down there was a timeout by UCLA. As a matter of fact, we went to the state championship game in all three of my years in the high school. That was a pressing defense. Both team’s benches were emptied and all the UCLA reserves like Tyler Trapani, who almost never played in games, were inserted into the action.

They did not permit black players to play in the National NAIA Tournament at that particular time, so I refused the invitation because of that.

I’ve got a picture of us when she was 15 and I was 16. I never change them.Through the next 14 years, when I worked on the various blocks, I had a lot of ideas.

Not even Hollywood would have tried to script this ending unless it was a true story and it is. I would write him letters when I could not visit him, just to touch base and let him know that I loved him.As a tribute to my Coach I wrote and a book/pictorial called The “Anatomy of a Champion”, to chronicle Coach Wooden & “His Boys’” (as he glowingly called his former players), ten NCAA national championships we won over a twelve year span from 1964 to 1975. You may or may not have heard this, but for my first 17 years in that old gym, I with my managers swept and mopped that floor every day before practice. If you’re not all together on the same page, we’re not going to accomplish what we’re capable of accomplishing. I don’t want to take anything away from North Carolina State. The lessons he taught his players have transcended from the wooden floor into our communities-at home and in the work place.During his retirement, Wooden was a sought after public speaker, acclaimed author and a mentor to young coaches. It surprised me we could get to the Final Four under the conditions in which we were working, because they were still the same. And, the fact that they’re interested, that should never upset a coach. It just turned out that way, but I don’t think it was destiny.John Wooden: There’s a certain amount of chance in everything, yes.

In the final game of the tournament, UCLA defeated the University of Kentucky, 92-85. Now, an Alcindor doesn’t need to be loosened up the same way that a Mike Warren does. 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. Forgiving keeps wrinkles from the soul. There are times I didn’t like them. You do your best.

There wasn’t radio, to speak of. That was Dad, again. That carried over in all my teaching.

Now, that doesn’t mean I’m not going to try to get in the path of somebody else.

Intricate details! It’s a fast game. I ran across that. Like one of the points in the seven point creed that my dad gave me was “Make each day your masterpiece.” Now you’re not going to make great improvement in one day. I don’t say it’s easy to get them to accept their roles, but you’ve got to — in practices, for example — you’ve got to pay attention to the players that aren’t getting to play very much. Everybody there is crazy over basketball. Yes.