John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball coach and player. 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[1] in a row in Division I college men's or women's basketball.[2][3][4] 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.
The very best at what he did. No one before or since has matched his accomplishments. Quiet and mild mannered, he commanded the utmost respect. AND at the start of every season he started his team off with the basics. FIRST LESSON...how to tie your shoes properly! Do that and you stave off blisters. No blisters, better performance. The basics apply to us all. If you don't 'tie your shoes properly' everything else that follows will be off.
He was the greatest. They simply called hin 'COACH'
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