John Wooden Quotes


The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.


Citations

Wooden, John, and Jack Tobin. They Call Me Coach. Word Books, 1972.

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John Wooden
John Wooden
  • Born: October 14, 1910
  • Died: June 4, 2010
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Coach

John Robert Wooden was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood," he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than four in a row in Division I college men's or women's basketball. Within this period, his teams won an NCAA men's basketball record 88 consecutive games. Wooden won the prestigious Henry Iba Award as national coach of the year a record seven times and won the AP award five times.